Escaping human society is one thing, human nature quite another in “The Decline.” The Canadian thriller, available exclusively through Netflix, offers a modicum of timeliness for U.S. viewers who’v…
Escaping human society is one thing, human nature quite another in “The Decline.” The Canadian thriller, available exclusively through Netflix, offers a modicum of timeliness for U.S. viewers who’ve coped with the coronavirus crisis by patronizing gun stores en masse: This fiction offers a sort of “how not to” in terms of locked ’n’ loaded response to civilization’s potential meltdown, as a group of survivalists discover they’ll be lucky to survive each other.
The prologue is a red herring: In the middle of the night, Montreal suburbanite Antoine packs his young family into their car to flee the city. But it turns out this is simply a dress rehearsal to ensure nuclear-unit preparedness should war, epidemic or general societal collapse necessitate such a fast exit.
Alain is among half a dozen invited participants this weekend, including François , Anna and Sebastien . Overall they’re a fairly genial bunch, whose concerns over the future run a gamut from fears of climate-change refugee invasions to “deep state” paranoia. The only potential wacko is David , a paramilitary type a little over-eager for any chance of self-defense.
The resulting fatality is clearly an accident — but opinions are sharply divided on whether the authorities should be notified, as Alain does not want this well-armed hideaway undone by accusations of manslaughter or “domestic terrorism,” let alone potential jail stints. Tensions rapidly escalate, until by the film’s second half it’s become a hunters-vs.-hunted thriller with two camps chasing one another across the snowy wilderness.
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