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These stories let us imagine being suddenly forced out of our comfort zone and into something far more heroic. Plus, have you tried to change the world lately? It’s painful and slow or quixotic at best. End-of-the-world narratives allow us to imagine large scale rebirth and play into our utopian desires. Apocalyptic narratives play into liberation fantasies. Mass annihilation is depressing, sure, but it’s sure as hell more exciting than the mall and running to the store to get toilet paper. We gravitate toward stories of the end if only to see whether or not we will survive—and whether it will be with our humanity intact.
What’s more, we find our fondness for destruction in pop culture reflected in our 24-hour news cycle. That, coupled with the relentless updates of Twitter and the Huffington Post, have provided an instant fear-of-collapse impulse to feed apocalyptic visions. Disappearing airliners and biological robots carry with them the uneasiness of possible dystopian futures
The directors visions of how a world would be after the apocalypse that can happen in any way possible then this almost can mirror what it would be like if a normal family had to deal with this who have almost lost everything and now have to survive by themselves with nothing as money cant get you anywhere its down to sheer resilience.
Ultimately the Sci-fi genre in films have always had big hits in the box office films as it adds diversity and a new visual experience to films as producers can experiment with new techniques and story lines as people want changes from the monotone world that we live in and post apocalyptic films show this.
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