![]() ![]() Completely unsensational but the ordinariness of the characters and situations make the film far more identifiable of an experience when compared to "Mad Max" or "A Boy and His Dog," and consequently more impactful. ![]() In many ways, this film felt like the 1983 film "The Testament," which depicted a typical family after a nuclear warhead fell on the United States. You'd have to get used to the idea that the world is forever changed and is not going back to how things were before. ![]() ![]() You'd no longer know what's happening outside your village. You'd have to contend with a world without lights, internet, or music. I don't want to spoil any plot points, but what unfolds is what would likely really happen. The story instead focuses on Page and Woods' characters and how they face the many challenges of living in this new world, which includes grocery store clerks now carrying shotguns, rationing gasoline, and an increasing wariness of people who used to be friends and neighbors (or even relatives). There are rumors as to what happened or how widespread it is, but it's never fully explained and that is not the focus of the film. Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood play sisters living with their widowed father in the forest when an unexplained power outage occurs that leads to a breakdown in civil order. This realistic end-of-the-world story unfolds as it likely really would. ![]()
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