[BeautifulBurnout]

I saw this a coupla weeks back and really enjoyed it, whereas my husband (who is a huge sci-fi fan) was thoroughly bored throughout.

Discussing it afterwards his main complaint was that it was a film that "only had a middle", no beginning or end. But I think that is precisely what I liked about it so much.

We never know where it came from, what it is, what happens to it because that is not what the film is about. That is almost irrelevant, because the film, to me, is about how people - friends and acquaintances - react to an extraordinary world-shattering event. The event could have been anything at all.