![]() One big difference, however, is that the mass attack on humanity is intercut with scenes of Bullock’s Malorie, some time in the future, guiding a small metal boat blindfolded, no less, down a wild river in the company of two little kids, who are similarly sight-deprived. In the short time that they retain TV service, they learn that what’s happening locally is also occurring globally, so they’re trapped and must brace for an onslaught of zombies or whatever they are, just like the characters in Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. In the resulting chaos, close to a dozen people wind up cloistered in a private home, hiding away and intent upon letting no more strangers inside. No one knows what’s going on or why this is happening, but an early line of dialogue sums it up, even if it wouldn’t serve as the ideal advertising tagline: “If you look, you will die.” ![]() Bier, whose 2010 Danish thriller In A Better World won the Oscar for best foreign language film, serves up an entirely dire world here, one in which people who are normal one minute go bonkers and kill themselves the next. ![]()
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