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Narrative
After decades of being alone, a wealthy family living in a salt mine encounters a stranger
Joshua Oppenheimer described the film as an exploration of whether we as human beings can come to a place where our guilt is too great to recover from our past..
Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 973: Carry-On (2024)
Overture Written by Josh Schmidt and Marius De Vries Performed by Josh Schmidt.
The performances are first-rate and keep you glued to who they are and what they are
"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 sets and lighting are perfect
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 we act to cope, strive, create, persist, protect ourselves and deceive ourselves to obscure the reality and our moral responsibility of our actions.