This is the invention of a new sub-genre: Postapocalyptic boredom. Why bother with a story if you can watch two completely uninteresting random people do completely uninteresting things for 1:30 hours. Sounds great doesn't it? Nothing happens in this movie. It is empty, pointless, boring and depressing. There is no plot. Only nothingness. Just two people doing nothing. Did i mention it was boring? Really really really boring.
This is by far the best explanation of what to expect: Nothing is a concept denoting the absence of something, and is associated with nothingness. Nothing denotes things lacking importance, interest, value, relevance, or significance. Nothingness is the state of being nothing, the state of nonexistence of anything, or the property of having nothing. (quote from Wikipedia).
The problem is that with (mostly) only two people on screen that you really know nothing about it is hard to care about anything happening to them. the main characters never really showed anything about themselves to get me emotionally involved. It all felt very shallow and flat. Sorry to say but throwing in some philosophy and giving it some artsy name doesn't make it art.
Plot summary
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.
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Postapocalyptic boredom
Good movie...
I like the apocalypse style in which the focus is on the psychological plot, very intimate, as chaos interferes in the psyche, in human relationships (here in the absence of them),you were very interested, despite not going as deep as you could ... A little slow and devoid of explanations, but a good movie ...
I just want to go home
An American couple in Iceland wake up and discover they are alone and speculate what happened as they raid the stores. Riley (Matt O'Leary) is a photographer with a box camera taking black and white photos, mostly of Jenai (Maika Monroe) his girlfriend, even after everyone is gone and he can't develop the film. Electricity is still on due to geothermal. The film asks a bunch of questions as to what we see, what is out of focus and is imperfect, but still part of life. It questions God's grand design and asks "whose God is it anyway." It also question customs such as burials because it is what we do as a civilization. None of this theological/philosophical discussion, most of which takes place about 70 minutes into the film, I found to be deep or relevant. It is about a two minute Philosophy 101 lecture.
The filming was excellent for the most part. They were able to keep out nuisance noises such as distant vehicles and even jet streams in the sky I will admit I am more partial to films about Iceland with Gunnar Hansen (RIP) but those days are over.
Guide: No swearing. Brief sex, back nudity.