16/48

After decades, a wealthy and lonely family living in a salt mine meets a stranger. Joshua Oppenheimer described the film as an exploration of whether we as human beings can ever reach a place where our guilt is too great to recover from the past. Opening written by Josh Schmidt and Marius De Vries performed by Josh Schmidt. “The End” is a fascinating and unique film that is like a cross between an opera and a play by Eugene O’Neill or Arthur Miller. The performances are top notch and keep you glued to who and what they are. It is a family drama with ideas contained in the film that resonate with our wider world and planet and the human and personal ways in which we act to cope, to strive, to create, to persevere, to protect ourselves and lie to ourselves against the dark reality and our moral responsibility for our actions. The sets and lighting are perfect. It’s a long film, over two and a half hours, but I was captivated by the acting and the direction of the story.