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‘It Ends’ Review: A Brilliant, Existential Road Thriller for and by Gen Z
A group of college grads find themselves on a long road to nowhere in Alexander Ullom’s 'It Ends.'
Their hangout quickly becomes a horror movie, briefly awash in soft-focus haze anytime they leave the vehicle, only to find endless forests on either side and, quite terrifyingly, dozens of desperate people in the woods begging for help and trying to steal their car, in scenes where eerie silences give way to hair-raising tension. For reasons inexplicable to the quartet, fuel, hunger and sleep are no obstacle even as days turn to nights, forcing them to consider every possible scenario — sci-fi, religious horror, a shared hallucination — allowing “It Ends” to quickly broach and dismiss all convenient explanations. Its lack of answers, as its characters search for both meaning and motivation, uses the very concept of genre cinema — something whose modern incarnation has both strict rules and easily identifiable objectives — to challenge notions of personal and artistic certainty, and tap into the latent sociological fears of burgeoning youth.
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