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User Reviews for: How It Ends

skbond
8/10  3 years ago
I was in a self-reflective, introspective kind of mood going into this movie. I was thinking about my failures as a father and how I might learn and grow and be better moving forward. I decide to watch a movie. This one says it's a comedy; I could do with some of that. And a comedy this is, yet it is so much more. This movie moved me and spoke to me in a way that hasn't happened it a long while. This movie made me smile; it made me laugh; it made me cringe; and it made me cry. I don't know what it says about me that I related so much to the main character Liza other than perhaps I've lost myself as well in depression and self isolation wanting more and feeling I could be so much more, but ultimately convincing myself that I am destined to be unloved and die alone.
This is Liza. A woman in her late 30s who has lived most of her adult life with a form of mental illness. Whether this derives from a chemical imbalance in the brain, or a series of events from her childhood, we don't know, though there is a clue when we meet her mother. Liza has had a few relationships but has resigned herself to being unloved and alone. Today, though, is a special day for Liza, for everyone really, the end of the world is tonight. The movie proceeds to follow Liza traipsing through LA showing some lovely LA views while she has many bizarre, humorous, and sometimes moving encounters on her quest to deal with her many regrets before the end.
Most of the encounters along Liza's journey are either very comical or very moving save for the one with Sal Benedetti (Liza first kiss) which has Sal in nothing but a speedo and there's a low key joke about "dipping in". There are quirky things like a woman riding a bike in a bikini, not by pedaling, but by pushing with her feet on the ground. Later there is a woman rolling down the street in a plastic bubble.
There is a conspicuous absence of traffic and people moving around in general. This seems to indicate that traffic only exists from people doing all the things they otherwise wouldn't do if it was the end of the world.
Overall this is a very entertaining movie that is both funny and at times touching and for me was a very welcome departure from main stream cinema.
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