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- Title
"IT'S OVER": REFLEXIVITY IN DON MCKELLAR'S LAST NIGHT.
- Authors
WEISS, ALLAN; BLACK, NICOLE
- Abstract
Canadian filmmaker Don McKellar's Last Night is an apocalyptic SF film created as a response to a spate of Hollywood blockbuster disaster films like Independence Day. McKellar never explains why or how the world is ending; instead, he is interested in how everyday individuals cope in their own ways, engaging in their own private rituals, with an impending annihilation. In its focus on the individual and the contingent, and its rejection of any grand apocalyptic narratives, the film presents a postmodern apocalypse. One of its major postmodern techniques is reflexivity; references to the film's status as a film permeate Last Night, although in relatively subtle ways. A close study of the film's casting, dialogue, and imagery reveals that what the characters are forced to come to terms with is not a natural, supernatural, or manmade apocalypse, but a textual one. That is, the only certain and definable end the characters face is the end of the film itself.
- Subjects
LAST Night (Film); MCKELLAR, Don; SCIENCE fiction films; APOCALYPSE; REFLEXIVITY; CANADIAN films
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 2017, Vol 26, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
0847-5911
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/CJFS.26.2.2017-0006