Let me just say that the scenario described here is one of sheer terror. You wake up one day and the entire planet Earth is gone. There is no one to get back to, there is no reason to do anything anymore. Not even keep living?
The characters in the movie reflect this mind-shattering scenario and its gripping dilemmas in realistic ways. People who complain this was dull, or pessimistic, or depressive, or grim... Yes, it is. Do you expect people to entertain you after all they've ever known got simply snuffed out? After all meaning in their life was taken away? This is a movie about the tenacity of the will to live against the darkness, the nonexistence, the death that permeates the cosmos. It is about starting anew, about throwing everything away and finding new reasons to live. The actors did an awesome job, and the movie itself is brimming with philosophical questions. If you are a brave soul that wants to stare into the void once in a while and test your mettle, and love great acting - then this is a movie for you.
I also think it captures, perfectly, the poem by Dylan Thomas:
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
