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Joshua Oppenheimer on Post-Apocalyptic Musical ‘The End,’ the Power of Solidarity and His ‘Inveterate Optimism’ Under Trump 2.0: ‘We’re Going to Fight Again’
Two-time Oscar nominee Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his post-apocalyptic musical 'The End' and the importance of solidarity under Trump 2.0.
Nor has he tossed and turned his way through countless sleepless nights, doomscrolling through the nightmare scenarios of what a second Trump administration could mean for Americans’ civil rights, the rule of international law, women’s bodies, the fate of the planet — take your pick. It stars Tilda Swinton(Mother), Michael Shannon (Father) and George MacKay (Boy) as a wealthy and dysfunctional nuclear family that has hoarded fine art — and a seemingly endless supply of food and wine — as they wait out an apocalypse for which they are in no small measure complicit. They’re joined by a personal doctor (Lennie James), a butler (Tim McInnerny), a maid (Danielle Ryan) and an old family friend (Bronagh Gallagher), each of them seemingly determined to live out their — and the planet’s — final days in a haze of nostalgia and denial.
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