PodBill
Just what I expected
Jenna Walter
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
mladen1987
The idea is good, it started OK, but at some point you'll notice that this movie is not that philosophical, nor logical. Especially the ending. I was ready to give the movie a 6, but the last lets say 20 minutes ruined it. The irrational decisions, teen spirit, bla bla and the very ending were disappointing. I hope that someone worthy will develop the idea better next time.
logopolis
The film held my interest all the way through. Ideas were presented, explored and illustrated. Production values were high. I thoroughly enjoyed this film. But for those who need action scenes to keep from being bored and who find conversations to be the dull part of a film that need to be skipped over to get to the good parts, this film is not for you.Who cares if it didn't meet the academic criteria for a classic philosophy course? If there were plot holes, I say so what. It was a film and your just go along with the plot in the universe the film is set.
Leofwine_draca
AFTER THE DARK is a non-starter of a film, financed by the USA but shot in a teaching school in Indonesia somewhere. The plot - if it can be called such - involves an eccentric teacher who takes a class of pupils on a metaphysical journey to explore the ethics and morality of an end-of-the-world scenario.That's it - this is a single location drama with a few excursions to make-believe worlds where the characters watch CGI mushroom clouds and the like. And it's not really a film at all, just a collection of scenes in which characters explore the human dynamics and relationships that would evolve if the world did collapse and a new society needed to be built from scratch.A project like this smacks of pretension, for me; why not just have the scenario play out properly instead of making it this quasi-fantasy teaching project? It could still have been achieved on a low budget. Watching the flights of fancy play out is extremely boring, and even worse, the characters are dull stereotypes. AFTER THE DARK raises a little interest by having some interesting actors in it (James D'Arcy as the teacher has done better work elsewhere, and Darl Sabara, Bonnie Wright, and George Blagden have all had better parts in other projects) but then squanders it by making the viewer feel like they're sitting in on a boring philosophy class.
alphac-37893
Ten people do not have enough genetic diversity to save the human race, that sum has been estimated in 20k precisely selected individual or 100k random selected ones. They'd soon have a second or third generation dying of horrible genetic diseases and malformations. All that pompous logic gave birth to a crappy movie, just after the middle someone points out that there could be other survivors elsewhere, but that's not the initial condition, so even as an exercise it fails miserly. That said, it has even minor ridiculous fails in logic like every minute, that's a teenage movie made to impress an ignorant fast food society.
