Erin Parrish

I loved this film, but did not interpret it to be an actual apocalyptic movie. I felt it was much more and on an analytical level a film about a women coming to terms with herself and her inability to connect to the world, in order to embrace motherhood. Things like the picture being painted in the beginning containing all the characters in the house; the dialogue between all the characters, the peaks inside to how she was raised and the no named children, which the girl is really her inner child, whom she learns to love; basically the entire movie was all in the Mallory’s (Sandra Bullock) head. It’s the character walking through her darkness, dealing with her inner fears, learning love and acceptance of herself and coming out in the light. I thought this was an amazing depiction of how we mentally face and overcome the things we keep lock away inside.