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You’d Think Watching Tilda Swinton in an Apocalypse Movie Musical Would Be Fun
But at two and a half very staid hours, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a punishing picture.
The film, directed by the award-winning documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, is a post-apocalyptic musical about the comfortable life of an absurdly wealthy family, as they chill in their well-stocked climate bunker after their own actions have wiped out humanity. While I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Oppenheimer — whose whole project is about interrogating the cinematic apparatus — wanted it this way, it’s also hard not to feel like the director has lost control of his material, getting mired in tedious variations on the same theme. The most promising part of The End involves the mother and the new arrival reckoning with survivor’s guilt, with the fact that they left their families behind to make it in this godforsaken hellscape — a potentially troubling, captivating, complicated idea.
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