After the Dark (2014)

Bad acting. Completely unbelievable plot. Imagine a 13 year old who has no idea what a philosophy class is, no idea how people would act in a life threatening situation, a weirdly vindicative and not-at-all realistic teacher character, and the stupidest ending ever and he'd still write a better script than this.

It starts off with a fairly interesting premise, some philosophy students debating moral issues at the end of the world. But it quickly falls down when it succumbs to pathetic teenage morals and self-righteousness. But I think it's the misrepresentation of philosophy that make it so infuriating. The idea that at the end of the course the so-called top student still isn't able to disengage her own moral code long enough to join in the thought experiment. What have they been doing all year, if this is the first time that her sense of moral right and wrong is being challenged? Also, philosophy is the exploration of ideas and thoughts. So, what kind of philosophy teacher starts marking down his students because they show thoughts and opinions that differ from his own? He should be encouraging independent thought. Then, in the final act the right shows his true disregard for philosophy when logic is utterly shut down by emotional arguments. I assume this is just to make an appeal to the over emotional teens this movie is aimed at. Serves me right for watching this rubbish, I suppose.

I thought it was a great film. Sure, I didn't like the female lead because of her horrible acting but I personally didn't think it took away from the movie much. As others have said, the ideas are good and I think they executed it very well. Definitely worth a watch. I felt like it went by in a flash, I enjoyed it so much. But just a side note, I was originally interested in some philosophy before so you may not see it the same as I did. It's a bit different from the average movie, as in I feel it's best to watch while imagining yourself as one of the students and making your own judgments on the choices made throughout. It's quite thought provoking and a nice movie to watch if you want to relax (not much action) and, although it sounds contradictory to my comment about pretending to be a student, it's a movie where you can just take a backseat approach.

just watched this film. saw a lot of derision on here for it so had to comment. this film asks some really good questions and doesn't ask a lot of other questions. This film lets the viewer think. A quality that so few films allow these days. Yes, there is a formula to this film but that is not a bad thing. The themes this film allows you to think about need a familiar plot point to ground it so we as an audience can relate. Sure this film is not Oscar worthy if that matters, but that doesn't make it a bad movie. This film reminds me of the 'Lifeboat' exercise I did in drama school. The 3rd solution to the puzzle made so much sense to me. Watch it and make up your own mind.