Top Nine Friday – End of The World Edition
Posted in Movies, Musings, Top Nine Friday on October 2nd, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
If I am looking to buy a book, rent a movie, or watch a TV show there is one subject that I will choose over anything else – the apocalypse. From your standard 99.99% deadly virus to a global infestation of zombies to a nuclear holocaust I love me some world destruction. Basically they are all the same premise:
- The protagonist gets thrown into a chaotic situation and the standard rules of the world are thrown out of the window as they stumble blindly around familiar environments that are made unfamiliar by their new scenario’s “rules”.
- The confusion and loneliness of their situation slowly worn away by finding others or learning why or how they ended up in their current situation.
- At the peak of their self-realization a plan is made to solve their problem or relocate to a realm of safety.
- Battles are won and lost, more people die and they arrive to a solution or a place of perceived safety only to yield more uncertainty.
- The credits roll and the audience is unsatisfied.
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