belong to the subgenre of post apocalyptic future film and it be a stylistic and very very intimate installment . the most noticed element of the film be it silence while no one speaks . i do not think besson and despite what be evident in most of his late work and mean it a any kind of cool gimmick . i think what make it so clever and so effective be the fact that with no other way of communicate and everyone have to read each other base on intuition and conveying of emotion and no matter how slight . though i wasn not glue to the screen and upon reflection i see that it a very touching and sensitive perspective on human nature . it vehicle be the stylized sci fi movie . part of it reflection on the nature of the human world be that each of it human be not necessarily play a a perfect human be represent the hero and a lone drifter in the desolate new world and be take in by an old recluse and who refuse to keep his part of an exchange of food between him and a husky and brutish character play by jean reno and and so reno try everything he can and predominantly use brute force and to get what he want . so and the antagonist be right and though not a good person and and the protagonist and his sympathetic foil be both wrong and though they be both good people . it shoot in a clear and crisp black and white and edited and capture in a low key yet spry and small scale approach and and it actor be very real . how can they not be . they and like their character be leave with the bare necessity of communication . this be one of the few truly good film that luc besson have write . his early work be almost always good than the fluff he churn out now .