Surprisingly Outstanding.

Rating: 10/10 (8 February 2020)

I knew the title had to do with the plot but I had never had an experience at the theater of feeling disruptive just from eating popcorn. It really immersed the viewer into the film and made you feel how the characters felt and just how uncomfortable it can be until you accept your new reality. At first I was wondering how the family could all be fluent in sign language after their world ending event until I realized they already knew it because their daughter is deaf. That was an awesome touch and showed how they could have survived up until that point. It was a film I'd referred members of the deaf community to because I had never watched a film with mass appeal that was almost all in ASL. You feel the connection the characters and the pain they all feel without ever being able to express their emotions fully. I thought I wasn't going to be able to take John Krasinski seriously because with a film I knew had to rely on facial expressions, that there was no way I wouldn't be thinking of his Office character the whole time. He proved me wrong, the story he is able to tell about the love of his family pulled at the heartstrings. 10/10. Although, like, why would anyone try to have a baby?!