In My Room [DVD] [2018]

We get to know a bit about our protagonist before he discovers that everyone has left without him, but one.It seems what characterizes him is a kind of unreliability. Very well trained for the tasks he must undertake, or intelligent enough to figure things out quickly, he nevertheless does things from time to time which appear questionable or bizarre to an onlooker. Possibly he is a type of man his age in his country, which is Germany.This mix of nobility and reprehensibility plays out during his new life as a kind of Robinson Crusoe.According to the Bible, it is not good for man to be alone; he needs a woman, a helpmate.The introduction of the woman into all this defines the last chapter.My encouragement goes out to those who can tolerate slow careful pacing; others will complain bitterly.The film makes a definite statement about these types, rapture or no.

Nothing happens in this German ??.Overview: Somehow, and ridiculously not explained, everyone disappears (like totally vanished) except our central male character &, you guessed it, someone else shows up. Dumb!Sequence of events: Start w/our camera view jumping all over the place; dark disco w/flashing lights; cig. smoking; walking bicycle; driving car; aged dying grandma; more cig. smoking w/breakfast; more driving; abandoned vehicles on roads; more driving; more walking; starts farming (why w/abandoned stores?); unlikely other (with all the right physical attributes) shows up at his desolate farm; the end.If there's some underlying message about, who knows, humanity it got buried in the presentation.

The first 34 minutes are excruciating and depressing and boringly slow. It gets better once he's alone, but the ending was...

It's a tragic, post-apocalyptic religious allegory about love. A little slow, but heartbreakingly beautiful.

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