A film that is an adaptation of a best-seller, The World After Us, by Rumaan Alam, produced by Barack and Michele Obama, starring two Oscar winners – Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali – as well as nominee Ethan Hawke, it’s obviously a film to check out. But not necessarily at the end of a Sunday, let me warn you because, in the first notes of the soundtrack, we already know that we will be tense. And it doesn’t take long.

An upper-class American family who decides to escape the big city to avoid people is not necessarily a very strange plan for many people. Amanda (Julia Roberts) and Clay (Ethan Hawke) rent a vacation home near New York, but shortly after they arrive, some strange things start to happen. In the early days, George (Mahershala Ali) and Ruth (Myha’la Herrold) knocked on the door and explained that they were the owners and that due to a blackout in Manhattan they were forced to return. Their coexistence is tense, but the arrival of the apparent apocalypse forces unity between them.

It would all be potentially terrifying, but somehow it just makes us nervous. The real reason for the chaos is not environmental, at least not just and it involves more the panic of a terrorist attack bringing out the worst in people. That said, an unseen enemy takes us back to those early weeks of the pandemic, when uncertainty about the future took us by surprise.

Interestingly, the book was published in 2020, and in Alam’s pages, the psychological drama about how two forced families live together amid the cataclysm was more impactful. Somehow, as the genre isn’t defined as thriller or drama or science fiction, it doesn’t make a difference, not even with the impressive cast.

Without this connection, the proposal to evaluate human behavior is lost and we do not get into the reality of what is happening. And if you’re looking for a few hours of distraction to close out the weekend, I hope you did well. I am not!

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