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Nihlistic letdown

posted 5 years ago by grhqofb5 (346)
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After all the drama, courage, resilience of the main characters, we are left with a final scene where our two survivors venture out into a vast world. And they are promptly eaten alive by a polar bear. What kind of reward has the writer given its audience?

[–] Geff (453) 5 years ago

Actually, facts don't care about your feelings.

[–] grhqofb5 (346) 5 years ago

The facts made me very sad. Ed Harris should not have released them into the wild at that point.

[–] Truthtalker (1969) 4 years ago

Agreed

[–] Roguemail (1614) 4 years ago

Did I miss something? Who says the survivors were eaten by a polar bear? I don't remember that at all.

[–] triplea (3577) 4 years ago

If it's brown lay down, if it's black fight back, if it's white say goodnight.

[–] Trev (934) 4 years ago

Big ass polar bear on the hill and 2 fresh humans to eat.

[–] spacecomedy (2043) 4 years ago

Nature, red in tooth and claw
--Tennyson

The natural world can be unfeeling. Perhaps the writer was aiming for reality more than uplift.

[–] TheArgentinian (7068) 4 years ago

The reward of FREEDOM?! What's nihilistic is actually your take on the ending.

[–] grhqofb5 (346) 4 years ago

Ed Harris should have let them off somewhere warmer so they would have at least had a chance at survival.

[–] EvilPinata (1186) 4 years ago

I thought the whole premise was that the whole earth was frozen. Not sure how much warmer it could've been.

[–] grhqofb5 (346) 4 years ago

It gets warmer at the equator. Don't even know why the train didn't go there.

[–] exatera (3953) 4 years ago

The significance of that scene was to show that there was life on Earth, not that the only survivors were eaten.

[–] grhqofb5 (346) 4 years ago

Not for long if you let them out in the arctic like he just did.

[–] moviechatterer (15583) 4 years ago

The writer has rewarded you a short sharp shock about how life works

[–] grhqofb5 (346) 4 years ago

They should have used the perpetual motion machine to heat the earth instead of circling it indefinitley