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The movie starts off with a long and beautifully melodic melancholy piano piece to the backdrop of ruined landscapes. The view of the movie is something like the aftermath of wide scale nuclear exchange, that has ruined the atmosphere and crops as well as left formerly huge infrastructure immobile and inoperative. The movie really works in giving a window of what this feels like and the viewer is taking into a ride of a what if this actually happens on that. What is good about this movie, is that the plot and action are not so overwhelming that you can’t stop and take in the views of the post apocalypse landscape so it takes the viewer for a ride with good pauses to reflect on the ruined landscapes and you can actually feel like you are getting a first hand view of these scenes in the destruction of the aftermath. In a net, they do not overdo the movie itself, and there is a side by side feel where you can also enjoy the enveloping landscapes of destruction as they might actually be. So the window on what that might look like is done well. The acting itself is very good, as the characters slip into a mode not of their own choosing and different positions can be taken, but a defense with some offense is taken by the lead played by Viggo Morgenstern and the vision of the movie is through both his eyes and his sons eyes. One of the offerings of the movie is a surprise appearance of an old man that only later due to the makeup you can recognize as Robert Duvall. Of the few people left there are still bands of attackers, people you in viewing the movie probably would wish had been evaporated in the event, which seems to have happened in a moments time yet left some minor pockets of scant survivors. While they are there, the movie mostly thankfully veers away from them, so you get more of an overall feel for how this might be also in terms of the effect on the environment itself and the complete stoppage of civilization as we know it. There is a retrospective to a Vitamin water. The son has continued good will and his character seems to say that the human forces that brought about this carnage was maybe a learned mechanism, not necessarily automatically innate as good will and intentions have survived in this youth. The father has mostly lost his compass for discerning the possibility of the good, and you can’t blame him for that but it does bring about inaccuracies. The movie also brings about a reminiscent feel for what might have been, had not utter destruction had taken place and reveals different coping strategies of the survivors in the aftermath. The belief in a benevolent deity is brought into the scenes briefly and evidence is only found in the former preciseness of the goodness of his relationship with his woman which is mystical to him upon reflection.
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