Thursday, May 27, 2021

After the Dark (2013)

The last day of school is usually an easy day where you just kind of show up and hang out. Well unless you’re taking the advanced philosophy class where the teacher decides they must do thought experiments on apocalyptic scenarios which will impact their final grade.

The premise is there is a bunker with enough supplies for one year which can accommodate ten people. There are twenty people in the class so how will they pick who gets the chance to survive.  

There are three scenarios that they discuss. The teacher provides each student with a piece of paper detailing their occupation and the class decides who can have a place in the bunker.  For the second scenario, the teacher reveals each piece of paper has additional info that might change their decision making process.

To make thing super weird, in several of the scenarios the teacher murders at least one student.  He also proposes that the girls need to have sex with all the males in the bunker to continue the human race, and girls who refuse will be forced to comply or be murdered.   Not only creepy but not a great plan to propagate the human race since each female that dies decreases the chances of babies. Also why do they need babies right now?

The movie is essentially a reenactment of what they talk about in class. So you find out who is creepy,  selfish, strong, or more manipulative than they appear . It’s kind of pointless since none of what happens is real. Also maybe it’s different over seas, but if any of those kids told their parents the teacher said he’s going to force you to try to conceive or murder you, the parents would demand he be fired.  Plus it would completely change any positive feelings you had toward your teacher. I don’t even know how to classify this movie other than pointless since nothing that actually happened took place.


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