Thursday, January 16, 2014

All The Time | Solitude and Loneliness


Devastating, the first word I uttered after watching the film.

All The Time is about "the story of a man who seeks salvation in the rubble of a ruined world." Henry Bemis, an anti-social booklover, finds himself in the middle of nowhere after an H-bomb from the nuclear war wiped out everyone, except him, that exists. At first, he’s elated in the solitude that he has gained; however, eventually, loneliness replaces this solitude. He comes to a point of committing suicide. As he prepares the gun he has found, he sees the ruins of a public library. This gives him a reason to continue his existence. He has all the time in the world to spend in this paradise of his. But then again, all good things must come to an end. As he’s about to get the first book he’s going to read, his glasses slipped off and shattered on the ground.

If I were to make an adaptation of the story, I would shift it to our situation nowadays. There are a lot of people addicted to computer games which cause them to shut themselves from the real world. I would want the main character to be male dota addict. A bit of romance could be added so as to make the man succumb to extreme sorrow after all his loved ones die. He would suffer the same fate as Henry; he would think he found his heaven on earth, but he’d be mistaken.

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Jennylyn S. Cancejo

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