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I can't say i liked the movie. I didn't, But i appreciated the obvious effort the actor:writer/director put into the project. I saw it in a theater because of Eli Roth's connection with it. There were great grindhouse trailers before the film. The movie takes place in an apartment. There is an epic level of blood and gore. There are only two actors. There's a prodigious amount of drug and alcohol use. There are some clever budget special effects that are fun. The villains in the film are bad actors. Though I respect the effort, there's no real payoff and it just kinda ends. I thought it might have been going in a direction that it didn't go. The guy wanted to make a movie and he did. While I didn't really like it, I'm glad the guy got to make his movie and i'm glad I paid to see it. I wouldn't watch it again though.

I loved the series so much that I read the book afterwards. I loved the book too. Neither is for everyone. They're both told from the perspectives of various characters in different time periods. That makes following everything complicated at times.

Some people will think it's about Covid, but it's not. The book was written years before Covid and the series had already finished two episodes before Covid was a thing. But there's a very real irony because of what happened with Covid, one that the author could not have intended. But that still makes the pointa even more poignant.

Like Joyce's Ulysses, Hamlet is both thematically connected to one of the story arks, and the story has a play within the play, much like Shakespeare's work does.

The way all the characters and storylines converge at the end in a very emotionally satisfying way.is similar to one of my favorite books, "A Confederacy of Dunces". I strongly believe that Confederacy can never be made into a good movie. There's too much going on and too many side stories, even though that book is essentially about one journey. Station Eleven is quite a bit more complicated than that. Making this book into a great 10 episode series is incredibly artful.

The acting is excellent. The adaptation of the book is amazing. Seeing a post-apocalyptic world transform from present day to overgrown and dilapidated was technically brilliant.

There are deep thoughts at stake here. There are several competing philosophical traditions at play. Its view of the necessity of art and artists is beautiful. Maybe we should question our dependence on technology. There's no question that human interactions are more important - and that's a big part of this story.

People who want easy to digest and non-complicated won't have the patience for this. Some will find it slow. I get it. I don't agree at all. I loved it and I think I got it.

Most dystopian tales are about a place that could never exist. They exist in the stories and draw parallels to our time or serve as metaphors for our struggles. This movie is not a documentary, but it uses documentary to explain how the future will be created by what is happening now and by what's happened in the last 2, 5, 20, and 30 years.

It doesn't offer hope or answers. Answers aren't that easy. Hope may be a fantasy. What if this is all happening and there's nothing we can do about it? Is it too late already? "If we do not act when we can will we fall off the cliff?"

Will voting change anything? Will not voting change anything? Will continuing to consume and benefit from technological comforts yield any different result than going back to a simpler life that is unconnected to information collection?

These are not equations answered in this movie. But they're questions I have because of it.

I'm sure there many people who think this film is leftist propaganda. These same people don't see how bad things are in this country and the world. They're ok with making American great again. I'm not sure we are ever going to be ok again, neither is this film.

This is not for everyone.