Justin Matthews

Comment on Greenland Film An amazing film that explores how the world would actually likely go if a comet was to hit it. What is amazing about this film is that it finally explores this type of apocalyptic scenario without the usual “Micheal Bay” style end-of-world cinematics. Unlike the films “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” that explored similar topics in 1998. This movie forgoes the Hollywood blockbuster histrionics that is the common Lingo Franca for such genres and instead explores the harsh realities an end-of-world scenario if a comet was to hit the Earth. Much like the great pandemic film “Contagion” by Steven Soderbergh — Greenland explores the realities of a world where “the end” doesn’t mean the end of humanity. At the end of the world there is both good and bad which is a fail of general Hollywood productions exploring Armageddon tropes —“Greenland” disrupts this by finally resolving the logic of why the Titanic Band played till the end. Which is that Humans aren’t always out for themselves — the Hollywood’s classic goto is we are all villains if you aren’t part of the solution (their own narrative axis-of-evil moment you might say). No the other humans in the story aren’t always self-centred cardboard-cutout, let-me-kill-you-if-it-suits-me story automatons. So the lack of these regular story cliches / story-atrocities in the film Greenland makes it clear why this film’s particular take on the end-of-the-world is ultra refreshing.