Jonathan C
Last Night is a masterpiece. The genre is old-fashioned; movies about the end of the world have been around for a long time. What is interesting about Last Night is that it treats the premise with some seriousness, as it follows the lives of some rather ordinary folks in Toronto as they are busy spending their last six hours on Earth. There is Sandra, a woman stocking up on supplies for her mutual suicide with her husband, when her car gets totaled by a mob and she is stranded on the wrong side of town. There is also Patrick, who is mourning the loss of his wife, who decides he would rather spend his last hours on a rooftop with Beethoven than with his family. Another man decides to spend all of his last hours enacting all of the sexual fantasies that he has been storing up over the past many years. One other family throws a last Christmas party, even though it is not Christmas.As the movie progresses the stories interweave as the characters interact. What makes this movie special is that there is nagging sensation that, no matter what character we are looking at, there appears to be some sort of disconnect between the fulfillment that the characters seek in their last days compared to what they are actually able to achieve. We come to realize that, although all of the characters understand that they are going to die, they really have no clue what this fact really means for them. Some achieve their dreams--one character give a premier piano recital that was clearly a lifelong dream, but the problem is that it is all done in the midst of a reality that is slipping away. Like the characters, we in the audience suffer from the same problem--we can't believe we are facing obliteration.Consequently, this is a great movie, because it really puts you in a place where you haven't been. The end is an emotional crusher--as the people really come to life for you, you wonder how they might be so easily be swept away. A tremendous film.
rabidcoon
I'll be the first to admit - I'm not very keen on semi-high budget movies ($2mil is low, but high if you ask me, considering Clerks was shot for about $25k); I never knew this movie existed for 13 years - the only reason I even knew of it was I opted to check to see which streaming movies would be removed from the queue of this well known provider.The storyline intrigued me, and I was not disappointed. This movie was incredible! I usually shut 'end of the world' movies off after the first few seconds, but I was riveted.. from the lovable loaner primary character (played by the director), to the friends he encounters - and makes - through the display of "these six hours", it has a rather touching, if not somewhat bittersweet positive view of humanity.There is not a moment of this movie I would NOT watch again; I've opted to pay extra to get the released-in-Canada WS version shipped.
wlee08
I'm not really sure what they were trying to do here. The script is not very realistic and at times is so nonsensical that you're not sure if they are trying to do a comedy, or a tongue-in-cheek comedy. It is hard to take this movie seriously and yet they tried so hard to make it seem serious. What could be more serious than the world about to end in a few hours? Everybody knows it, and yet people are still going to work? A guy is giving out program notes at a piano concert for an unknown musician? You get the impression right away that this is a low budget feature. I was hoping a decent script would compensate. I turned this one off about 1 hour in and came back the next day to try again. No improvement. Solid pass.
john1250
i just like to add to your evidence #1 ###1. The film never mentions WHEN the people found out the world was going to end. They very likely could have known about the impeding doom for *****months or even years***** in advance. I'm sure after an initial state of panic, things died (no pun intended) down to the state we see in the film.### I just like to say that they couldn't have been informed earlier than a few weeks, the information of the end of the world. As you saw (i hope) at the beginning of the movie, while Sandra Oh was shopping that the shop still had, not lot, but some foods left on the shelves. Especially why i think that the people got informed of the tragedy in a less than a month is because of the conditions of the food and the champagne evenmore the clearness of the shop. If they got informed of the news as you said "...months or even years..." there will be no food left in the shop, even more surprising fact is that the shop wasn't out of food. even that they were informed "...months or even years..." earlier. Thinking logically, people stopped working a "...months or even years..." earlier, there will be no food coming in but considering the fact that there is still chunks of food left, not chunks, but big pieces like fine champagne, they couldn't have been informed in advance "...moths or even years..." earlier the end of the world.
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