On the other hand, it’s not a happy ending at all, because presumably hundreds of thousands of people have already died in the three days prior and all the decision making stuff was essentially futile. In a sense yes – this is a film about love and Eric’s great love for his family has not only saved them but the world. We also understand that Eric has faith and has made his peace with the decision. He does this for his daughter, so that she will have a chance to grow up and experience the world and he does it out of great love for Andrew. They discover this after Eric is convinced by the horsemen (he sees a vision in a shaft of light) and persuades Andrew that he must sacrifice himself. The footage the four strangers (the four horsemen of the apocalypse, essentially) initially show on the TV of the disasters is pre-recorded and so it’s plausible they are using this prior knowledge to recruit the family into a cult or similar.īut towards the end of the film it becomes apparent that the apocalypse is real, and the family did indeed have the weight of the world on their shoulders. The book and film stay fairly consistent in the first half – the family are very dubious that they have anything to do with it. Is the family really responsible for the apocalypse? Here’s how the two diverge and here’s what that means. The answer to that question may differ depending on whether you’re reading the book or watching the film.
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