After the Dark

Great movie all the way through

This movie could be a little boring at times but it was interesting to watch. It arrived in a timely manner and was packaged so no damage occurred during shipping. I would recommend this DVD as well as the seller.

This film is a brilliant study of how stressed humans react to issues of life and death, and the value of human life. The only criticism I have is that the ending is a bit of a non-sequitur, but except for those last five minutes the film is riveting and spell-binding. Bonnie Wright is especially good as one of the students.

Unusual story line made it worth watching.Surprise ending was predictable and that was disappointing.

So my wife really, really wanted to watch this movie after seeing the trailer. "It's about philosophy and the apocalypse! We'll love it!" Congratulations, trailer people. You got us good that time. We'll never see that six bucks again.This film seems like a great idea. An exploration of basic philosophy and ethics through the visualization of thought experiments? Cool! But this is about philosophy in the way that 'Matrix Revolutions' was about philosophy: pretension, doublespeak, explosions, and electronica masquerading as deep thought.In this movie, a couple dozen Abercrombie models in their mid-20s pretend to be actors pretending to be high school students (to be fair, some actually are actors). On the last day of Model School, their philosophy teacher springs a thought experiment on them: what if the world were ending and each of them had to decide which 10 people to save? The teacher (who can't make up his mind whether he's teaching logic, philosophy, ethics, Reader's Digest Brain Teasers, or brooding) might have been expected to introduce concepts like this before the last day, but hey.Their thought experiment is then visualized and narrated (in its broad strokes) through three iterations in which the students -- and the audience -- become increasingly frustrated. The 'philosophy' 'discussion' is a train wreck of unexamined preconceptions, assumptions, and commitments that goes from bad to worse to utterly incoherent. Why is principled nonparticipation ruled out of court? Why does everyone (even the token religious guy) automatically go along with the materialist-utilitarian agenda without comment? Why is the only alternative to materialist utilitarianism presented as hedonistic narcissism? Why are people caught out on bad decisions based on information they couldn't possibly know or gain knowledge of? Why doesn't anyone notice that the professor is subverting the entire experiment by acting like a sociopath? Why does nobody notice that virtually everything the teacher does is framed in false dichotomies? Why is everyone cool with the teacher thought-experimenting the rape of one of his students at gunpoint? Why does the heroine turn out at the end to be a total creep who's leading her hapless, stupid boyfriend along? Why is so much of this movie devoted to the topic of sex with only the barest of comment on its philosophical significance?This movie pretends that it's exploring the big questions, but it's not. It's a bunch of pretty people admiring some utterly shallow ideas. Don't waste your money, your time, or your mindspace.

I love a good sci-fi apocalyptic thriller and I thought it was an engaging first episode. The acting was good and i'm sure the characters will come to life as the series progresses. I need to know - what are those ominous noises filling the air? It creeps me out. The final scene was a really cool cheesy cliffhanger that definitely left me asking "wth! what's next?" I can't wait to see where the story goes.

Loved the way they tried living it out through different scenarios. Makes you wonder, if I was going to put together a crew together to survive after the big war, who would I pick? A couple of good twists, well worth watching. Cinematography/filming on par with American films, not a "low budget" indie by any means.

I agree with multiple perspectives already described in the reviews for this film: beautiful scenery, uncomfortable pedophilic notions, and questionable philosophical soundness. I prefer to take the heart of a story and ask myself how it affected me on a personal level. SPOILER ALERT: The essence of the film is: do we allow rationality to override happiness? What is a life worth if it is a perpetual state of misery? This can be answered philosophically and rationally, but the overall notion of rational thinking being a state of emotional contentedness is one that not many people would readily accept or understand, or liken to "pragmatism" instead of interpreting it as a necessary logical conclusion. She chooses the boy who is not as smart as the teacher and it shows in her decision making at the end of the thought experiment. Did she make the right choice? Even if they all die out? I would agree with her that love weighs out more than perpetuating life for the sake of it. I believe there is a deeper rational truth to that concept. In that sense, the film was an excellent thought experiment in itself. Since I have seen it, I would not watch it again because I already gained what I could from it. Had there been a favorite actor, I might have given it 4 stars simply because I'd watch it inevitably in the future. I reserve 5 stars for films I will watch countless times throughout my life. 3 stars might seem like a harsh review but it's my middle ground for a film I enjoyed as a one time watch, which is how I'd recommend this to others.