The End We Start From (2023)
Directed by Mahalia Belo
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.
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The second scenario is reminiscent of any number of disaster and / or science fiction movies about flooding, apocalypse or dystopia (When Worlds Collide, Rudolph Maté, 1951; Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón, 2006; Waterworld, Kevin Reynolds, 1995): if you approach this movie expecting something like that, you’re going to be disappointed, because although that element is very much present in the film, it’s little more than the backdrop.
The “Children of Men” (2006) inspirations are apparent and effectively realised, creating a dystopia that’s most terrifying in how jaded people seem to have become by the despair of this new world.
The second scenario is reminiscent of any number of disaster and / or science fiction movies about flooding, apocalypse or dystopia (When Worlds Collide, Rudolph Maté, 1951; Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón, 2006; Waterworld, Kevin Reynolds, 1995): if you approach this movie expecting something like that, you’re going to be disappointed, because although that element is very much present in the film, it’s little more than the backdrop.
There have been eco-disaster / dystopian movies before (Mad Max, George Miller, 1979; The Road, John Hillcoat, 2009; Monsters, Gareth Edwards, 2010) but they tend to focus on the issue of survival in a post-apocalyptic world.