(12-14-2023, 10:23 AM)Helig Wrote: I was recommended to check this out by my boss the other day, so I gave it a try and I think I only made it like 15 minutes in (out of a whopping 2 hours 21m) and it gave me the distinct impression the director wanted to give a very Stanley Kubrick kind of feel but with the usual modern trappings of film. The whole premise (gleaned from reading the description on IMDB) basically was a Y2K styled event and just did not seem to come across very well due to a slow start and some disjointed dialog.
Has anyone else watched it further or to completion and found it to improve further in?
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I watched it last night, the movie was pure trash. Its like they wanted to be secretive, while discussing a powerful cabal, propaganda pamphlets, and all we were supposed to believe it was outside forces. They could have done so much more with this film, they had great actors but no story.
Tesla cars were auto driving and crashing everywhere, animals were freaking out and migrating out of control. They were trying to be smart and ended up making no sense, the acting was weird, they threw in the "racist" parts fairly early.
This I will say, even though the movie was horrible imho, they did cover how humans would act towards each other should shit hit the fan, each character was a portrayal of what would would end up seeing at some point. We have the rich white couple from the city escaping to the country to a B+B, then we have black folks who show up their after a black out, and the wife doesn't believe anything they say, even though it was his house her family rented.
We also have the jaded young black woman, who though you can tell the white woman is terrified of the father, is not afraid to let her know that she doesn't like her either, so there is this conscious back and forth. So, I think that also covers the "race" part of SHTF, they didn't bring religion into it, but I think that would have been an important part, on how religious people would take this.
Then we have the guy with a gun, who was your "friend" before, but sure as hell isn't now, his is his, if you weren't prepared, oh well. Finally you find out that this is indeed a coup d'é·tat, that in fact the most cost effective way to take over a country, is by taking from them, and then them killing themselves, while the government is taken over.
So. That's my take LOL
