A man looking for his childhood sweetheart travels with a woman trying to get to her parents and find companionship as an asteroid is about to hit the Earth.
The side of American cinema that one can fall in love with. To say that it’s hard to combine two polar opposite genres is an understatement. Visually bringing it to life is even more challenging. On the one hand, you have the end of days; an asteroid is about to hit the Earth, and everyone will die. The side effects of that span from quitting the job, looting, killing, committing suicide… doing heroin, orgies, getting kids drunk… well, a variety of things one wouldn’t do otherwise.
Writer/director Lorene Scafaria manages to make a film that will make you laugh, cry, and feel uncomfortable in between. The end of the world is coming, and people express themselves in ways they have never done before. Now, think about it. What does that say about people? We don’t dare to express how we really feel? To say what we want to say? To act like we want to act? That we don’t dare to live the life we want to live? Do we disclose who we really are only when the pending doom is coming?
These are the questions Scafaria poses, and Steve Carell and Keira Knightley create the intended feelings by delivering bittersweet performances. With them, briefly, you can spot numerous actors who jumped on board just to be part of this film: Melanie Lynskey, Patton Oswalt, Adam Brody, Connie Britton, Rob Corddry, William Petersen, T.J. Miller, Gillian Jacobs, and Martin Sheen.
Weirdly, I chose this film to close the year, but for some bizarre reason, it felt right. Have an amazing 2025, and let’s not worry about the end of the world but be happy about the beginning of a new, creative and compassionate one. Be well!
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