End of the world movie with some religious undertones and some definite horror-like moments that build a lot of suspense.
I really enjoyed this movie.
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It was interesting to see the Director dance around the religious aspect. They built up the story throughout the movie until you really get the feeling they wanted the ending to be representative of the biblical beginning of the Earth, but at every critical turn they switched back to a scientific, possibly Intelligent Design, explanation. The figures that follow them through the movie maintained a physical-looking form at their transformation but had an aura around them that could be considered wings, as if angels. His dad as a pastor and he as a lost son was complimentary, but you can’t really expect an astrophysicist at MIT to believe in a higher power so it fit in. The single tree on the hill at the end could have been indicative of the tree at the Garden of Eden. But as was mentioned in the film, it could all be that the mind sees what it wants to see.
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