Screen share | Films, shows and videogames that romantic the apocalypse

Joel and Ellie also stopped the ‘The Last of As’ game for a moment for a moment for a moment outside the zoo at Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo Credit: Naughty Dog

In the summer of 2020, I found myself once again in the overgrowth ruins of a familiar place. The screen is flicker for life. A dilapidated window allowed a desolate world to go into the soft golden lights, its peace was pierced by Chords shivering the music of Gustavo Santolla.Last of usThere was never a happy story. But as I pressed the “Start” on the game – now adapted to Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey’s acclaimed HBO series, with Season 2 released next week – I did not get consolation in the hope of liberation. Instead, what I was killed was a strangely assured idea that after the world separated, some tenders still remain.

It is curious how often the apocalypse sounds like a balm. These stories of civilizations and survivors alone should be terrible. and they are. But for those of us who are living with the concerns and overgrowth of modern life, the end of the world can feel almost like a relief. A terrible, beautiful cool. Chance to breathe.

‘The Last of As’ Menu Screen | Photo Credit: Naughty Dog

Wall · EFor example, the pastel presents its distopia, with a lullaby feeling of garbage to the earth. The world is over, yes, but see how soft loneliness is. See how kind. 2007 of 2007 I am great Wil Smith, his trusted dog Sam, and gives us the huge fate of an empty city, inviting us to consider that when the noise stops finally, solitude can be cleaned.

HBO Station eleven It dare to believe that Shakespeare will be there even after destruction. The most delicate tendency of that humanity – art, memory, kindness – can survive until the day of calculation. Prime Video Controversy Goes in another way, a gars embrace the abandonment. But even in its radioactive playground, there is a strange freedom in the happiness of reinforcement.

Still from ‘Station XI’. Photo Credit: HBO Max

Hayao miyamaki Novice The end time does not paint time as a punishment, but as the Earth’s immune response – a toxic beauty that makes the sympathy the most rare and the most valuable resource. Meanwhile, Hideo Kojima DeathA film also converts a slaved, worldly package-decivering gig work into some spiritual, formal and almost myth for adaptation. And Zom 100 – A zombie comedy, of everything – tells that perhaps society was real terror. Finally, we can congratulate the apocalypse with open arms and a bucket list.

Still from Hideo Kojima’s ‘death stranding’. Photo Credit: Kojima Productions

I am not vested to end the world. But for an incredible culture that feels very fast, very loud, and too much, these stories provide some simple. Their solitary ruins provide clarity. Sometimes, in ruins, we can listen to ourselves thinking in the end.

As I am waiting for the release of Last of us Season 2, I think back to its gaming sessions at the peak of the epidemic. I played in the hours of the wee, when everything was stopped – everyone fell asleep, still the road outside the death, as if I survived alone. There was comfort in that peace, due to the long -term cool of the game, in the dikripit husk of green cities, the way every footsteps echoed. It was not felt that I was escaping from reality, but more as I finally found a version of it that I could bear. There is no small thing, no information, no disappointing fluorescent office lighting – just a gentle sense of collection.

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