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Great movie. I just watched with my wife.
Plot: a virus initiates a state of blindness. Vector is likely airborne. People go blind in less than 24 h after infection. Situation: SHTF.
Much of the movie is about the trials and tribulations of the ground zero patients. Initially the patients are rounded up and stuck in quarentine. The caveat - quarentine is a jail. At first their is food provided, but eventually that ends. The quarentinee's start forming their own social rules. Not too much unlike Lord of the Flies. There are greedy power hounds, there are noble/educated organizers.
The Hook: one person in the initial quarentine actually has sight. She is a timid woman by nature and used to living with her super-hero 'doctor' husband, one of the random victims. She has to learn to aggression and survival skills. She has the humanity to not simply leave everybody, including her husband who has many talents but also has flaws.
Alll and all and great movie. Not some CGI fest or action hero bull that you typically see. A good intellecutual treatment of the SHTF situation. What do you do in the social calamity. What happens when you don't get to make up the rules. In this scenario - all your gun hoarding, bullet saving madness does jack good.
Film was written by Don McKeller - a Canuk with talent. He used to be the Bruce MacDonald star boy of films like Road Kill (the psycho-killer) and route 66. McKellar out did himself on his first directorial debut - with Last Night, an apocalyptic scenerio of a meteor of Canadians facing the coming to the ruination of earth. Hell we didn't try to send up a spaceshuttle or any of that bull to intercept it. We just put a big party together and the that film was about that. This movie is an examination of the human condition. The transformation of victims and the transformation of the timid.
A good watch! Sorry Mods - perhaps a trifle off topic - but inherently the show is about Survival. How to procure food, how to keep it secure, how to survival the social reality that humans are just animals. No more noble, no more trustable than your average mutt -one of which is indoctrinated into the clan.
Plot: a virus initiates a state of blindness. Vector is likely airborne. People go blind in less than 24 h after infection. Situation: SHTF.
Much of the movie is about the trials and tribulations of the ground zero patients. Initially the patients are rounded up and stuck in quarentine. The caveat - quarentine is a jail. At first their is food provided, but eventually that ends. The quarentinee's start forming their own social rules. Not too much unlike Lord of the Flies. There are greedy power hounds, there are noble/educated organizers.
The Hook: one person in the initial quarentine actually has sight. She is a timid woman by nature and used to living with her super-hero 'doctor' husband, one of the random victims. She has to learn to aggression and survival skills. She has the humanity to not simply leave everybody, including her husband who has many talents but also has flaws.
Alll and all and great movie. Not some CGI fest or action hero bull that you typically see. A good intellecutual treatment of the SHTF situation. What do you do in the social calamity. What happens when you don't get to make up the rules. In this scenario - all your gun hoarding, bullet saving madness does jack good.
Film was written by Don McKeller - a Canuk with talent. He used to be the Bruce MacDonald star boy of films like Road Kill (the psycho-killer) and route 66. McKellar out did himself on his first directorial debut - with Last Night, an apocalyptic scenerio of a meteor of Canadians facing the coming to the ruination of earth. Hell we didn't try to send up a spaceshuttle or any of that bull to intercept it. We just put a big party together and the that film was about that. This movie is an examination of the human condition. The transformation of victims and the transformation of the timid.
A good watch! Sorry Mods - perhaps a trifle off topic - but inherently the show is about Survival. How to procure food, how to keep it secure, how to survival the social reality that humans are just animals. No more noble, no more trustable than your average mutt -one of which is indoctrinated into the clan.
