Written by Scott EdwardsA person's mind is a terrible thing to waste, especially if it is a young person’s impressionable mind. When we are just starting to understand things as children, our mind is fed many different things and it never seems to stop working from there. As we refine this practice when we get older, some people want to broaden their thinking and come up with different solutions to problems that may never present themselves. Hopefully when doing this, it unlocks a different type of thinking for people and helps them understand what the world has in store for them, but doing this too much may drive you to madness. On the last day of school, philosophy teacher Mr. Zimit is not quite finished with his pupils. Wanting to make sure that they are ready for their next step in life, along with school, Mr. Zimit is ready to challenge them once again, but this time he is going to make them decide who lives and who dies. Becoming tired of the old exercises and teaching what others have done before him, Mr. Zimit is ready to push his students to the brink to see if they are ready for the cold hard reality the world holds for them. Picking out an apocalyptic scenario with atomic bombs falling all around the group, there is a bunker ripe for the taking, but there is a snag, the bunker can only support ten people, and there are a total of twenty one people in the class. Handing out occupations to each of the students, Mr. Zimit is the wild card with an unknown skill that the class must decide if it is valuable enough to allow him into bunker with them. Having to base their decisions solely on the new professions that have been handed down to them, the group decides who will be allowed to live for the next year, while leaving the others to perish in the atomic blasts. After the Dark focuses on a group of students on their final day of school in their philosophy class when their teacher Mr. Zimit hits them with one of the hardest scenarios they have been faced with. Based on occupations handed out at random, the class is forced to decide who lives and who dies in an atomic apocalypse while not knowing the entire story behind the exercise. With little to work with and their teacher being a wild card and not knowing what he brings to the table, the class is faced with a dilemma that they have not faced before. The best student in class, Petra, does not want to run through the final test, but is forced to with the promise of her boyfriend losing a letter if she does not stay. As each scenario gets run through, Petra takes control of the think tank and comes up with her own ideas to prove that all of the situations do not have to end with an untimely death. This is a hard movie to review without giving away what happens at every step since you are being thrown into a situation that you never want to face. Having to choose someone’s fate based on what they do or what they know seems like a very difficult decision to have to make, but when the survival of the species is called into play, there has to be some sort of hierarchy. Being forced into the exercise, Petra does not want anyone to be left out of the bunker and votes them all in, but the others in the class are more worried about the final decision that will be brought down by the teacher. Looking at the emotions that everyone has to go through as they are either voted in or voted out makes you truly believe that they are being put out to dry, while there is always two people that have to be included in the bunker for the outcome to be remotely positive. Happy Viewing.
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