It's easy to dismiss this movie as a pointless disaster movie. But in my books , this is the most Orwellian thing to come out in years.
Miscommunication/inability and outright unwillingness to help each other out and or listen to what others have to say carry dire consequences.
The scene where Ethan Hawke's character encounters the woman on the road who could only speak Spanish: she literally tells him EVERYTHING that he needed to know in that moment in regard to what was going on...he just couldn't understand her, and he began freaking out when he mistook her for being hysterical. The truth is the woman told him about the deer acting weird, about the drones dropping leaflets from the sky, the fact that she hasn't seen anyone for days.
But the movie also shows that even when we *do* understand one another, there is an unwillingness to hear each other out, or our right dismissal of what others have to say. In fact that's the entire point of the movie and it's repeatedly virtually every ten minutes.
Miscommunication/inability and outright unwillingness to help each other out and or listen to what others have to say carry dire consequences.
The scene where Ethan Hawke's character encounters the woman on the road who could only speak Spanish: she literally tells him EVERYTHING that he needed to know in that moment in regard to what was going on...he just couldn't understand her, and he began freaking out when he mistook her for being hysterical. The truth is the woman told him about the deer acting weird, about the drones dropping leaflets from the sky, the fact that she hasn't seen anyone for days.
But the movie also shows that even when we *do* understand one another, there is an unwillingness to hear each other out, or our right dismissal of what others have to say. In fact that's the entire point of the movie and it's repeatedly virtually every ten minutes.