LECTION is an indie thriller about a local election in a post-apocalyptic society.

Lection (2019), promoted as a post-apocalyptic film, acts more as a castaway survival film. In a future we don’t know if it is distant or not, since they wear clothes from the current era, the way politics are handled has devolved. After the last elections for mayor of the tribe, the only edible thing (loaves of bread) has entered a period of scarcity, which leads to the negative behavior of its dissatisfied members. Because of this, the current mayor (Mike Amason) decides to open elections to challenge the people and see if they can do better than the current government. Dot (Sanethia Dresch) hurries to the polling station to run and be the only opponent of the current mayor. Once in campaign, Dot begins to gain the affection and loyalty of some allies. But, at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is who survives in the battle for the title of mayor since they literally fight to the death for the opportunity.

Lection has a central theme: the prognosis of the degradation of politics towards its future state. The plot dates from a system in which democracy is non-existent and communism excelled after the catastrophe caused by the current state of civilization. Voting is irrelevant during that time, and the only way to become mayor is by killing the other candidate in an official ring fight.

No origins are mentioned by which the world is known in that way or reasons why civilization was reverted to tribal groups, as well as it is unknown the reasons to have stopped communicating verbally fluently and have bad spelling despite having a person in charge of basic education, and books still exist.

Lection carries around strengths than flaws by demonstrating its long-lasting and overly-developed beautifully shot scenes. From beginning to end, the dialogue is minimal. If it had a word counter on the corner of the screen, it would probably sum it up to 20 words. This makes the film diluted when it comes to following some plot points and it’s even harder to understand it when the few spoken words sound muffled. Another strange thing is the unknown reason to have words misspelled like “bred” instead of bread or “mayer” instead of mayor when it was shown that people still own a few books for educational purposes.

In the end, Lection tries to stand out by warning the audience with a scrambled lesson-learned. But, it seems hard to get the message when the message itself gets confusing at times.