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How It Ends

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2018.08.01

This is a movie about a handful of characters weathering the end of the world. An unexplained and potentially global geo-physical event is the trigger, and what follows is a descent into bewildering struggle as the survivors cling to the last shreds of safety. It ends with a dis-satisfactory glimpse of them trying to out-drive the shock-waves of the event enveloping the Pacific Northwest. But before then there's an unpleasant encounter that fails to find a purpose and wraps up without really adding anything.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

—Vincent Van Gogh