Matilda is a big comet that is going to collide with Earth; it will happen within a few weeks and that will be the end of the world. What to do about it? People have a lot of different reactions or just no reaction at all! Even we that are watching it don't really know if it's for real or is just some kind of crazy experiment in the plot. Anyway, let's move on... Weird things are happening everywhere, the streets have riots and traffic jam's, everybody is thinking about that one way or another, there's no escape. Maybe it's real, what would Dodge do?
He is a middle aged very centered man, has an extraordinarily boring life, combined with a stubborn ascetic attitude he absolutely doesn't wanna change. First thing in the movie is his girlfriend living him. Just another one, he's the one that all the girls have gotten away from. His friends try to set him up with another girl, but he is really not interested. It's the end of the world. What could he possibly seek for? The last days of everybody's life on Earth. Then he meets Penny, the extreme opposite of his behavior. She is very young and lives in the same building he does, but they were never friends before; however, because of the latest happenings, their lives become trapped together.
There is something about our contemporary culture, doesn't matter the differences, like East and West, North and South, First or Last World. We have a thing with the end of the world. Maybe we the citizens of 21st century are a little frightened with some things, there are so many of them, maybe we secretly wish this whole confusing world would end, that would be a possible way out of so many conflicts and troubled things going on. A big comet could do the job..., that would be perhaps the easiest way out, but if that happens, we die!
This movie is trying to rescue some essential things, at least one, and the perspective of the end of the world just clears the field for us, showing so many things we think are so important but maybe they are not. If we just could keep on living! If we just had one more chance... What could change to better in our lives? Is it too late already? Is the world really coming to an end? These are some of the questions we could be willing to do in face of the scenes we watch. What does this idea of "end of the world" represents to us? Great changes? A new age? A need for leaving old things in the past so we could finally embrace the 21st century? Well, each one in the audience is looking for their own answers.
Steve Carell and Keira Knightley do a great job, they create a glue to this plot that offers nothing else to hang on while we try to make a picture of what's going on in the story. This impossibility of creating stiff references to understand the story is the great climate of this plot. You just can't! Notions of time, space, existence, social relations, it's all in the limb that precedes the very likely end. But maybe there's a last thing you could go for, fight for and wish...
He is a middle aged very centered man, has an extraordinarily boring life, combined with a stubborn ascetic attitude he absolutely doesn't wanna change. First thing in the movie is his girlfriend living him. Just another one, he's the one that all the girls have gotten away from. His friends try to set him up with another girl, but he is really not interested. It's the end of the world. What could he possibly seek for? The last days of everybody's life on Earth. Then he meets Penny, the extreme opposite of his behavior. She is very young and lives in the same building he does, but they were never friends before; however, because of the latest happenings, their lives become trapped together.
There is something about our contemporary culture, doesn't matter the differences, like East and West, North and South, First or Last World. We have a thing with the end of the world. Maybe we the citizens of 21st century are a little frightened with some things, there are so many of them, maybe we secretly wish this whole confusing world would end, that would be a possible way out of so many conflicts and troubled things going on. A big comet could do the job..., that would be perhaps the easiest way out, but if that happens, we die!
This movie is trying to rescue some essential things, at least one, and the perspective of the end of the world just clears the field for us, showing so many things we think are so important but maybe they are not. If we just could keep on living! If we just had one more chance... What could change to better in our lives? Is it too late already? Is the world really coming to an end? These are some of the questions we could be willing to do in face of the scenes we watch. What does this idea of "end of the world" represents to us? Great changes? A new age? A need for leaving old things in the past so we could finally embrace the 21st century? Well, each one in the audience is looking for their own answers.
Steve Carell and Keira Knightley do a great job, they create a glue to this plot that offers nothing else to hang on while we try to make a picture of what's going on in the story. This impossibility of creating stiff references to understand the story is the great climate of this plot. You just can't! Notions of time, space, existence, social relations, it's all in the limb that precedes the very likely end. But maybe there's a last thing you could go for, fight for and wish...
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