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Completely pointless

posted a year ago by Carlo (86)
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Se we have a movie about survivalism and a situation quite similar to a WW3 scenario. I guess this is still the wild dream of the leftists and the Freemasons who wanted to drag America towards a war with Russia. Anyway, the movie is clueless and has several plot holes. We don't get to know who attacked America and if these guys disrupted in some way the communication system, we don't understand how exactly power is still working in the house where the two families stay. Where are the armed forces anyway? Shouldn't we see them in the roads of the cities helping the population? Or if it was a coup by some rogue forces, I guess we should see something more than deceptive flyers on the streets. Again, the movie does not follow any logical line. Let's talk a bit about the characters whom we see in the movie. Is Rose supposed to be a sort of autistic child? Her fixation for the series Friends is not even explained. Again, there's no introspection of these characters. A few more things. The movie contains some interracial woke messages and the ending is completely stupid. A waste of time. Don't spend money for Netflix. Watch their "movies" on free platforms. They don't deserve a cent.

[–] Whatthecurtain? (33) a year ago

It's not a movie about survivalism, it's a movie about lack of engagement in the real world.
The clue is in the young daughter having a life dependency on a tv series about people and events that never existed

[–] Carlo (86) a year ago

ok, if that was the main core of the movie, it is poorly addressed, imho. As I said, I saw no introspection of the characters, especially the one of the supposedly autistic daughter. It's a poor script that gives you the feeling of going nowhere.

[–] Mikester (141) a year ago

I really enjoyed the tension of not knowing - i knew the same thing as the characters - basically hardly anything - and so i felt with them in the confusion and tension of 'omg, this is weird, now i really wanna know what's going on'.
We never see inside the city, but we see a lot of helicopters over the city when the bombs go off.
Also the black guy right at the end explained very clear what is happening, what's the scenario of the movie - that there are no rogue forces, just cutting off communication by hacking and doing some minimal terrorist attacks and misinformation, so the country starts their own civil war and do their own coup de tat - supposedly the cheapest way to fuck up a country.
Rose is super-stressed and that's why she clings on to her new favorite series, she seeks comfort in that.
I found all characters to be realistic and human, and not making superstupid decisions (like in many other movies).
Also no interracial woke messages i see at all. Teslas are just crashed because of their great ability to self drive. The black daughter is a little paranoid and racist, the movie does not portray this as anything good, she is just portrayed as the others as not perfect humans. I really found this movie to be much more exciting and interesting than eg the latest marvel movie (don't feel much great tension, interest or empathy with the characters there)

[–] parkerbot (8993) a year ago

I think the point is that most adults aren't prepared and most children are even less prepared.