…Actually, the movie. Now this a a movie that I found extravagant, but dull in the beginning. It was only in the second half that it made me watch it till the end and not regret I did so.
It’s a movie about the end of the world, at least ours that is, and stimulates one’s imagination towards “what if” mental scripts. The basic question one might ask himself/herself after seeing this movie is “How would I react if I’ll fiind myself facing such a siatuation, finding out that Earth is to be hit by another planet (in this case)?”.
What is someone to do, if anything at all, when imminent distaster is about to strike? And this time, no fancy NASA blow-the-planet-up ways to approach the problem, no last minute “whew, it passed us by” moment… just the end of the world…and silence.
The thing that impressed me the most is the script, that focused solely on the members of one family, so that the movie was able to offer a more in-depth perspective of the natural goings-on related to such an event that is to impact each and every one of us… it’s gonna be personal… not only an event that we are going to share with the world. Not just a piece of humanity’s history. I really enjoyed watching an Armageddon movie where people don’t get in the grips of mass hysteria and start running in the streets screaming.
The main characters of the movie, two sisters, display such different attitudes, and the one that we might at first consider to have adaptation problems -caused by her severe depression- seems to cope better when confronted with the imminent character of the future. Sometimes, the best decision one can make is to accept what is coming and to be aware that over-analysis and agitation won’t help and can even make the situation worse.
It’s a powerful lesson one can extract from the movie. Sometimes it’s okay to let go…
Enjoy the movie if you haven’t seen it yet and also you can leave a message if you feel like sharing any impressions on the movie or perhaps the perspectives it brings…
What would you do if…?
