The End: A Dystopian Drama Unfolds Underground
Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Tilda Swinton in The End
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The End
Joshua Oppenheimer
(Streaming on MUBI)
Life on the planet’s surface has become nigh-on unbearable, but with money and resources enough, the finest feelings and highest aspirations of our culture can be perpetuated underground, albeit only for a chosen few.
In Joshua Oppenheimer’s unearthly drama The End, Michael Shannon takes on the role of the father, an oil magnate who made the difficult decision to lead his family to safety in an old mine. Here, he crafts a new narrative, rewriting his own history and that of his company in a self-serving memoir dictated to his adult but inexperienced…
