A precious stone that almost had enough cuts Asian cinema has long acquired its own original features and features, in which we have long distinguished for example English or French cinema, Hollywood or Eastern European (etc.). Last Dawn is a fresh Chinese post-apocalyptic drama in this series I could well parallel for example with the famous Korean zombie apocalypse “Train to Busan”. Like him, “The Last Dawn offers a fresh look at the stories that have become familiar by American standards.”
Not far away. The development of technology has predetermined the emergence of a new type of solar panels capable of transferring an overwhelming proportion of captured sunlight into electricity. Having received such a powerful and virtually free source of energy, earthlings gladly abandoned the former traditional in the name of ecology and economy. Nuclear power plants have been shut down, coal mines in remote corners have remained in minimal quantities in the form of vestiges of the past, Gazprom shareholders are probably crying bitterly somewhere, and the economy of one regional gas station country is finally torn to shreds to the delight of world democracies:
The world is filled with free light, the new generation does not imagine an era before ubiquitous gadgets. An amateur astronomer, leading, like many in the era of technology development, a closed lifestyle and communicating exclusively with artificial intelligence in his own smart watch, has long been trying to get to the bottom of past cosmic cataclysms, catching in them analogies with the current behavior of the star in the solar system. Analyzing the data collected, he realizes that “something went wrong”, but, in fact, it is too late. In the window facing the sunny side of the same lonely (from the meaning of “one in modern society”) neighbor, he sees the agonizing flashes of the sun and ... and all, the sun has collapsed, the end, the finish, the void. Confusion around, the home computer gives the hero a disappointing weather forecast in the coming days on a sun-deprived planet. But our self-taught astronomer has the answer to what he will do at the end of the world - try to survive!
In general, the seed for post-apocalypse, I think, is quite non-trivial. The plot can not be spoiled further in the review, but I will say that in the film, in addition to the plot and good acting of the central duo of characters, I liked it, and what I personally lacked: The visual series is of course a budget film, in places it catches the eye, but sometimes in the frame just brilliant plans slip. The Milky Way through the devoid of light atmosphere in the elements of the roadmowie is fascinating, a second episode with a kid in the store trying to drive a finger and click on a paper map in an old magazine is genius, and from freezing goldfish in the aquarium threw me into the cold. In such small strokes lies the secret of the atmosphericity of the picture. The leading couple of actors played in an Asian manner, but in my opinion, quite accurately conveyed the state of their characters as closed in their own world people, locked in the cages of modern society. And the end of the world as a reason to break out of the cages of these conventions. "Tomorrow!!!" (c)
What did I miss? Not enough minutes 15-20 screen time and another budget of the film to show the mass doomsday, hell, sodom and gomorrah, created in the first day after ... too quickly the city was empty, too little blood and cruelty. The director clearly did not have the budget to cover this moment fully. The show looks isolated episodes and does not convey the horror that, in theory, should embrace society. There is no colorful transformation of humanity into non-humans. That's about it.
My verdict: firm 8 out of 10
P. . . and do not say that in a fantastic movie, something fantastic and implausible.