The privileged ones who will survive the apocalypse
Joshua Oppenheimer returns with 'The End,' a chamber musical about the fictional story of the survivors of the end of the world.
- Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. Written by Rasmus Heisterberg, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Shusaku Harada.
- 148 minutes
- Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States
- With Tilda Swinton, George MacKay and Moses Ingram
In the series of unusual musicals that have starred in the film season,Emilia Pérez to They will be dust, is now added The end, the first fiction of Joshua Oppenheimer, the filmmaker who caused a sensation a few years ago with The act of killing (2012), the documentary in which some of those responsible for the genocide in Indonesia in the 1970s recreated their crimes as if they were acting in a Hollywood film. Despite seemingly being a different proposal, Oppenheimer repeats The end in the idea of how those responsible for some atrocity resort to artifice to rewrite their own history with impunity.
The end takes us inside a luxury bunker where a married couple, their twenty-year-old son, born in captivity, and their helpers take refuge after the world has suffered an apocalypse for which the patriarch is partly responsible. A chamber drama with songs rather than a survival film, The end explores how the arrival of a young woman from abroad shakes up the fictional moral universe in which the protagonists had settled. Oppenheimer constructs a convincing habitat for the characters, a residence filled with works of art inside a salt mine that is as fascinating as it is unsettling. Very obvious in its discourse on privilege, the film fails to exploit the possibilities of the musical, despite its star-studded cast, Tilda Swinton, and it doesn't achieve the emotional impact it seeks over more than two hours.
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