Armageddon<\/em>, is lost, and with it hopes of warding off an extinction level event. The world has mere weeks left. \u00a0At that very moment, Dodge\u2019s (Steve Carell) wife decides she cannot spend one more of her suddenly limited minutes with him and literally runs away.<\/p>\nHe\u2019s all alone for the end of the world.<\/p>\n
A neighbor, the much younger Penny (Kiera Knightly), finds her relationship equally incapable of sustaining her through the end and desperately regrets the whims that placed her an ocean away from her beloved British family.<\/p>\n
The unlikely pair team up, as Scafaria put it \u201cweaving through the chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had fun trying to explore who they would come across and what weirdos they would meet along the way and how everybody is handling everything differently.\u201d<\/p>\n
The dark humor of the film comes from the combination of a lifting of consequences and a panic of approaching death. \u00a0An insurance office doggedly keeps selling insurance, utterly useless, after all, because who\u2019s going to pay out and who\u2019s going to collect? \u00a0An upper class dinner group shoots its first heroin, finally doing the bad things their ambition had stunted. And a Friendly\u2019s (think TGIFriday\u2019s) restaurant becomes far too friendly with its customers.<\/p>\n
Scafaria polled friends to find out how they would react: \u201cMost people I talked to sex, drugs, and rock and roll is going to take place. People are going to eat their faces off. But it seemed like the thing people mostly want is friends and family, friends and family, your loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Dodge and Penny, however, who are their loved ones? Dodge no longer has family and Penny is far from hers.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me,\u201d Scarafia said, \u201cIn terms of what death is like, you get really surprised by who is with you. Who\u2019s not with you is shocking, but who\u2019s sitting next to you when the big one hits, it\u2019s like \u2018You\u2019re there for me?\u2019 Sometimes it\u2019s a surprise. Love doesn\u2019t always look like what you thought it would.\u201d<\/p>\n
At its heart, the love story is a metaphor for life. Time is limited and the asteroid only speeds up and consolidates the inevitable. Why waste time with bitterness, as in Dodge\u2019s anger toward his absent father (Martin Sheen) or regrets, as in Penny\u2019s wasted time away from her family? A life well-lived looks similar whether it\u2019s ninety decades or cut tragically short: Love, reconciliation, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice.<\/p>\n
This quiet, well-acted and well-written movie is one of the best of 2012 so far and it\u2019s seemingly hopeless ending nevertheless brims with hope for us all. What more can we ask than to lie down for the last time with the love of our lives, secure in the knowledge that we have lived well?<\/p>\n
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World<\/strong> is rated R for language, some sexuality, drug use, and brief violence. Material is not graphic. Bad behavior is contrasted with good. Could be appropriate for older, mature teens. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do we want out of life? What if the future was taken of the table? Would it change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,204,13,11,168,1],"tags":[515,516,433,5],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-theaters","category-interviews","category-new-movies","category-slider","category-uncategorized","tag-kiera-knightley","tag-lorene-scafaria","tag-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world","tag-steve-carell"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>Lorene Scafaria, writer and director of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,<\/em> had her own brush with apocalyptic loneliness.<\/p>\n