Seeking a Friend for the End of the
World
Seeking a Friend for the End of the
World is a romantic comedy drama movie released in 2012. This movie
is written and directed by Lorene Scafaria. The leading characters of
the movie Seeking a Friend for the End of the World are played by
Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Martin Sheen and Derek Luke.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the
World tells the stories of two strangers who has come close when the
time of the earth is coming to an end.
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| Keira Knightley and Steve Carell in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World |
Plot:
At the beginning of Seeking a Friend
for the End of the World, we learn through a radio announcement that
an asteroid is going to hit the earth in three weeks, and it will
destroy the mankind. Dodge is going somewhere with his wife in a car
and after hearing this announcement, his wife leaves.
Dodge tries to live his life normally where
almost everything around him becomes chaotic. People have started to
stop working in their offices and no one in interested to take a
higher post.
Dodge visits some of his friends who
are having a party. At that party, Dodge's friend wants to hook him
up with another lady, but Dodge doesn't get interested. At one time,
Dodge's friend herself wants to make out with him, but Dodge refuses
to that too.
In his apartment, Dodge sees her
neighborhood girl Penny crying on the fire escape. Dodge brings her
inside and learns that she has broke up with her boyfriend and missed
a flight, by which, she was supposed to get to her family and to
spend her last days with them. Dodge also learns from Penny that his wife
was having an affair with someone else.
Penny hands Dodge his letters which
were mistakenly delivered to her for last three years. There Dodge
finds a letter from Olivia, the love of his his life, which came three
months earlier and told him also 'the love of her life'. That night,
a riot is going on nearby. Dodge goes to warn Penny and finds her
boyfriend with her in her apartment. Three of them tries to escape
from there, but only Dodge and Penny manage to run away with a car.
The car was running low on fuel and
soon they have to stop. Dodge is mad at Penny for not delivering the
letter from Olivia earlier. Then they make a deal, that is, if Penny
helps him to find Olivia, he will help her to reach her family.
They take lift from a man in his van.
But soon the man is killed by assassins whom he hired earlier. Dodge
and Penny bury the man and continues their journey with his van. On
the way, they stop at a restaurant with over-friendly people. After
the dinner, Dodge and Penny have sex in the car.
In that night, while they are again
continuing their journey, they are stopped by a policeman and then
sent to jail for the problems with the van. They are released on the
next morning. They head to one of Penny's ex-boyfriend's home nearby,
who is a military man and is fully prepared for the apocalypse.
From there, Penny talks with her family
on the phone. That man offers only Penny to stay with them, but she
refuses. Then they borrow a car from him and continues there journey.
Once they reach Olivia's home, they
find the house empty. They spend the night there and Penny finds
another address of Olivia. They go there on the next morning, but
Dodge doesn't meet Olivia, just leaves a note for her. Then Dodge and
Penny goes to a beach where there are a lot of couples and they enjoy
each others company.
That night, they reach Dodge's father's
house. Dodge and his father is meeting after a very long time and
this meeting takes the bitterness out of them. Later that night, when
Penny is sleeping, Dodge takes her to her father's private airplane
and asks him to take Penny to her family. Dodge then starts his
return journey to his home.
Will Dodge see Penny again before the
world ends? Can Penny finally go to her family? Let's watch the movie
to find the answers.
My review about Seeking a Friend for
the End of the World:
First of all, Seeking a Friend for the
End of the World seemed like an average romantic movie.
The plot of Seeking a Friend for the
End of the World was good, but predictable for a romantic movie.
Although the ending of this movie was predictable, but the whole plot
was innovative, not what we regularly see on most romantic movies.
But it still felt like it could be better. Their journey could have
more interesting stories in it. At some parts, where they were
talking, it felt boring. Less dialogues and more actions could make
this movie far better than it is. The direction and the screenplay
were okay.
The acting of all the major characters
were good. The acting skills of Keira Knightley and Steve Carell
needs no endorsement and here in
Seeking a Friend for the End of the
World, they have done no misjudgment to their names. Both of them
perfectly portrayed the characters they were playing and their
performance were outstanding . The dialogues of this movie were also
good.
The make ups were good too in this
movie. The lighting and the camera effects were also pretty good.
There was no nude/violent scene in
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, but it had some scenes
with drugs. But overall, I think this movie is safe to watch with
kids.
So, finally, i liked watching Seeking a
Friend for the End of the World, although, from time to time, it
seemed a little boring. If you are a fan of romantic drama movies,
this one can be a good one for you. It has a innovative and different
plot than other typical romantic movies. But if you are not a big fan
of romantic movies, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World may
seem more boring to you.
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