Dr Lenera
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A seventy mile-wide asteroid named Matilda is on a collision course with Earth and a last ditch effort to destroy it has failed. The world only has three weeks until impact, at which time all of humanity will be wiped out. Dodge, an insurance salesman, has just had his wife commit suicide. All over, people react in varying ways, from drugs to promiscuity to rioting. Dodge unsuccessfully tries to kill himself with window cleaner and befriends his neighbour Penny who has just kicked her boyfriend out. After reminiscing about his childhood sweetheart Olivia, Penny gives Dodge a letter she received for him but kept forgetting to deliver. Dodge is surprised to learn it is actually from Olivia. In the middle of the night, a riot breaks out. Needing to escape, Dodge tells Penny he knows someone with a plane who could get her to England if she helps him get to Olivia first……
It’s certainly a very romantic concept. Going to search for the one who got away many years ago. It’s also a concept often done in film; not that far ago, the surprisingly good Letters To Juliet used a nice variation on the idea. However, add that to the End Of The World, and you have a really involving and touching film, don’t you? Well, that’s obviously what writer and director Lorene Scafaria thought, the same Lorene Scafaria who wrote the rather charming Nick And Nora’s Infinite Playlist, with which this movie shares many similarities with. Actually, the picture doesn’t entirely work. Whilst watching it, I felt that it didn’t really need the ‘end of the world’ scenario. Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World, which at times seems like a more ‘commercial’ Melancholia and is burdened with an awful title, has had a mixed response and I can entirely understand why, because it’s half a good film and half a poor one. I guess it’s also because some folk buy into extreme and even maudlin sentimentali
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