With strong female leads,THE END WE START FROM is loose-limbed like the book it's based upon. The crisis of the world in peril is seen sparingly and abruptly in the background and this makes the film more interesting than many of the pack of end of the world movies and TV shows doing the rounds. Strong performances make up for a simple and thin plot throughline. This more abstract and painterly than other films in the genre, yet I found it was all the more effective for it. There's food for thought here, but it needed to be louder and a bit more dramatic to be memorable and hit home more astutely with it's world in peril message.
This is a modern film so we can expect, irritating music, characters without names, scenes filmed in the dark, characters doing things for illogical reasons for reasons unknown, characters staring at each other without saying anything, set at a snails pace and filmed in an abstract manner.
Some may like it but i found it slow and irritating. Its only 141 minutes long but i had to fast forward it.
Not recommended.
Great actors and a great story and um that's it. Not sure I ever believed any of the contrived moments that were supposed to pull emotions out of the deluge. Very disappointing when there was so much on offer.