Sandra Oh is amazing in this movie, Don McKellar's Last Night.
The world is ending by meteor. People are all choosing how to spend their final days (in drastically different ways) and the movie follows a handful of these.
I suppose the science of this is bad, but it's the poetry that works.
This scene always makes me cry (probably you have to know Oh's character backstory to realize how plangent this scene really is).
I love the crazy doomsday jogger who runs through the movie like Medieval Death giving out the countdown.
If you haven't seen this movie, give it a try sometime!
Lots of humor to the thing too. It's not really a bleak movie.
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hey, i nearly forgotten this movie. it is a gem and the last scene is utterly heartbreaking. saw it a couple years ago in ifc. its tone is a little wobbly, if i remember, because i got to it about five minutes into the film and couldn't quite make out if it was a comedy our drama. the movie plays like an apolalyptic series of vignettes about the varied lives and loves of hip 20-somethings. a cross between a film like the early 90s gen-x feature SINGLES and any sci-fi channel flick about the end of the world.
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