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You appear to be avoiding discussing the concern of undue emphasis. The film's sci-fi element is a minor contextual device, which LvT has used before (in Epidemic), quite unlike the setting throughout Armageddon. (Aside: it would be interesting to see a word cloud of the descriptive phrases being used: ""end of the world tragedy"", ""psychological disaster"", ""sci-fi-tinged disaster"", ""family drama""... If I were compelled to pick a standard sub-genre to describe the film, it would be ""tragedy"".)   "