Raul F Gonzalez

What would you do at the end of the world? In Carol at the End of the World, people are counting down the days until a meteor impact will wipe out all of humanity. While the rest of the world parties with wreckless abandon, Carol is unsettled by how humanity, when faced with the meaninglesness of their existence, abandon any attempt at creating meaning and instead descend into a hedonistic puddle. Carol then finds, an office, that despite alll businesses being closed, is open. Here Carol settles in amongst a group from wildly different backgrounds who fill their lives with busy work. By approaching the work and people doing it with sincerity Carol is able to discern some sort of meaning for herself and her colleagues despite being faced with the meaninglesness of her existence. Whether director David Guterman knows or not, Carol and the End of the World is a profound reinterpretation of Camus' "The Myth of Sysiphus" with protagonist Carol being transposed as our absurdist hero.