But he had no interest in creating a disaster spectacle, a la last year's doomsday asteroid duo Armageddon and Deep Impact . The results are both thoughtful and funny. The protagonist's family stages an elaborate Christmas dinner. One man has sex with as many different kinds of women as he can think of. A gas company bureaucrat calls every citizen to thank them for their patronage.
Vandals steal cars and wreak havoc.
The film's approach allows it to cut to our basic Earthly desires and fears, rather than venting faith or anger at God and technology. I just wanted to look at what people would do if the world was coming to an end. I've been thinking about the end of the world since I was a child. I was a troubled child, so this was a good purging episode. And a fitting tribute to the apocalypse.