If the world were ending imminently — say, in three weeks — would you throw off the shackles of social confines and indulge in every crazy impulse the moment inspired? Would you seek out your loved ones in order to spend your last days in their company? Would you just stay put and continue on as normal right up until the final moment?�Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, the directorial debut of�Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist writer�Lorene Scafaria, combines a deviously tragicomic take on the approaching annihilation of mankind�with a irritatingly unconvincing and unnecessary love story.
Until romance reluctantly but unavoidably creaks into the story (seeking a friend, my ass), the�film starts off so well, exploring the most prosaic of upcoming�apocalypses as seen through the eyes of Dodge (Steve Carell), a man whose life has been largely unexceptional and is now about to come to an end, along with most everyone else's. (One of the film's nice touches is an overheard radio broadcast about how the planet's best and brightest are being gathered into some kind of ark — a standard issue global�cataclysm plot point never touched on again, because the characters in this film aren't exceptional enough to be plucked up.) At the outset beginning, he and his wife listen to a news announcement about how a last effort to stop a giant asteroid headed toward us has failed, and that impact was in an estimated 21 days. She looks at him, and then runs for the hills, never to be seen again.
For a while, Dodge keeps going into work at his insurance company, where his boss notes that the few remaining employees are allowed to dress like it's casual Friday every day, and wonders if anyone would like to…
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