Post-Apocalypse Now: The end of the world at the movies

From the Bible to Nostradamus, the Mayan calendar and the Millennium Bug, fatalists, fantasists and clerics have long been fascinated by the end of the world.

nothing more than to feed our deepest fears about overpopulation, pestilence and nuclear weaponry – and the public who goes to the movies.

The overabundance of dystopian fiction arriving in cinemas and video-on-demand in the coming months includes Peter Jackson Mortal Engines, Kim Jee-woon's "Inrang" and Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi's "Luxembourg"

Shawn Robbins, # 39; chief analyst at Boxoffice.com, sees the genre as the "definition of escape", a form of art that soothes the prima I wish to return to the essential.

"These types of films are often seen as pessimistic glimpses in the future, which is certainly a valid interpretation, but they can also be self-reflexive in a positive way," he said at the conference. ; AFP. "It's easy to see post-apocalyptic and dystopian films as part of our inevitable destiny, but we can also take them as lessons and parables because, at the heart of all good history, the human condition is explored and challenged . "

" Breed Rats "

Zombies, big rocks of space and our own weapons of mass destruction are often the cause of the fictional apocalypse, but not always.

"A Quiet Place" unleashed carnivorous aliens, while in "I am Legend", "The Andromeda Strain", "12 monkeys" and "Planet of the Apes", the villain was a virus.

Geophysical disasters make for the human race in "Soylent Green", "Waterworld," and "Wall-E," while technology is the enemy of "Logan's Run" and various "Terminator" and "Matrix" movies.

George Miller's "Mad Max" movies from 1979 to 2015 inspired an army of so-called "cosplayers" who gather at festivals to experience their fantasies of warriors Collapse of Civilization.

Every summer, more than 2,000 jockeys leave their work across America for decamp at the Wasteland Weekend Festival in the "C" is a chance to get away. of rat life and having fun, "Joseph Hileman, a Concord supervisor, near San Francisco, 52, told AFP. Seventh visit in 2016.

filmmaker Mike P. Nelson launches into the apocalypse, a 95-minute shock movie entitled "The Domestics", released in some cinemas American emas and video on demand during the weekend.

'Macabre fascination & # 39;

"There is a little macabre fascination in the idea that we could all be finished at any moment, whether people want to admit it or not," he said in an interview

. almost fantastic in the minds of most people that it is something that could happen. And I think some of these movies give us a glimpse and allow us to be scared for a moment but safe. "

With Kate Bosworth (" Blue Crush "), and Tyler Hoechlin (" Fifty Freed Shades "), Domestics" is located in the American Midwest, turned into a lawless desert after a government-induced chemical atrocity.

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Nelson Stated that he was heading to the near future, earth-to -from the original "Mad Max" rather than the more stylized landscapes of recent dystopian science fiction.

"He created this world that was not too far away and people kept driving on the right side of the road, ate in restaurants, there was still some sort of police force," he said. he says.

"But it's the people who went wrong, that was what fascinated me, and I thought," I want to do something like that. "I wanted to tell a story about how the people of this world become embittered after something terrible. " MKH

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