The End We Start From

Overall i enjoyed "The End we start from." But throughout the movie it felt like i was always waiting for it to move up a gear, and then it just ends. Its all about surviving during an egological crisis. A problem made all the more challenging for the fantastic Jodie Comer. As she's just had a baby amongst the chaos. There's plenty happening in the movie but it focuses more on Comer, her backstory and the human element. I think i felt slightly underwhelmed by the movie because we've had so many more eventful post-Apocalyptic films and tv shows that this up close and personal one feels very different. In short. What could have been an otherwise average movie is given a boast by Jodie Comer and by an ending thats rushed but satisfying.

While Jodie Comer delivers a solid performance and the production is also solid (on a TV-scale), the story/plot is not. It feels like the writer tried to drown me in indifference and a substance named boredom, and they succeeded quite well. The End We Start From has received positive reviews from professional critics, but these days this might suggest that the movie is nothing special or good for an audience seeking entertainment (because you know, the message counts). I'm unsure if there's some profound wisdom hidden in the movie on a deeper layer, as my attention quickly shifted to sleep mode while watching it. Nonetheless, The End We Start From is not a candidate for my personal the worst movie ever award contest, and that's the best I can say about it.

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I had been putting off watching The End We Start From for a few months, only because I knew that I needed to be in the right state of mind to take it all in. I was not left disappointed. This British Indie disaster film is so quiet and understated, I can imagine if it had been done in America, it would have been quite over the top. Jodie Comer is brilliant as a mother trying to get herself and her baby through the flooding disaster that has hit the UK. Separated from her partner she battles to keep them safe and battles with her memories to try and let go. This is honestly an extraordinary film. I highly recommend it.

"The End we start from" is quite a hard movie to review. Overall i enjoyed the movie. But it felt like i was always expecting it to move up a gear, and then it just ends. Its all about surviving during an egological crisis. A problem made all the more challenging for the fantastic Jodie Comer. As she's just had a baby amongst the chaos. There's plenty happening in the movie but it focuses more on Comer, her backstory and the human element. I think i felt slightly underwhelmed by the movie because we've had so many more eventful post-Apocalyptic films and tv shows that this up close and personal one feels very different. In short. What could have been an otherwise average movie is given a boast by Jodie Comer and a happy ending that makes for a nice change in this kind of story.

The opening scene resembling a flood in the bathtub was nice. There were several scenes that made me nod my head and think to myself "mmh nice touch." There isn't a lot of it, but I thought the nudity was unnecessary at the start, like in the bathtub, but it kept showing up throughout the movie until I became indifferent to it. Just felt like a movie that could have maintained a PG-13 rating were it not for sporadic instances of nudity. I didn't know anything about the movie, but the poster, inadvertently reveals the impending childbirth so it was a huge spoiler. I also just assumed at some point, she was gonna be stuck alone with the baby to survive because of the poster too. Despite these revelations, the film manages to convey urgency and tension, creating a slow-paced yet suspenseful atmosphere. And the mother's fear and frustration are translated well, I was scared for her when there was a knock on the door for instance. However, the narrative loses some of its imaginative momentum, transitioning into a more predictable phase after an impactful beginning. At some point, it's more just winding down the runtime. For the most part, the films gloomy, like I couldn't escape the thought of British weather watching this. It reminded me a lot of certain aspects of the series "Station Eleven" as well. Katherine Waterston gives the film a little life once introduced and the dynamic between her and Comer becomes instrumental in sustaining the film. Nothing crazy happens, I mean stuff happens but it feels uneventful. While the film effectively builds tension, gets you invested in the character, and outlines stakes; the second half fails to maintain that momentum. The second half of the movie is uneventful, and I was no longer scared for her or the child, you just have a feeling they're gonna make it, even when she runs into devious looking characters or dodgy situations and conflicts. However the film making was great, it feels like it was shot by someone who knew what they were doing and that's evident in the first half of the film especially. The second half could've been more imaginative or impactful. I also loved the name of the movie, a little on the nose but I liked it.

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To be honest, I haven't seen or heard anything about this movie. So I decided to Google it and watch the trailer on YouTube. It only have 4 well known actors. The movie details an environmental crisis that displaced a young woman and her newborn baby countryside with her family in England, this is a simple and low budget films that has no over the top cgi. Sometimes there dialog and sometimes there isn't, it follows best and worst in after a disaster befall them its a bit abstract and boring at times. All the actors done very well with the material. Jodi Comer did an outstanding job in the lead role, with strong supporting cast.