This film would make an excellent companion to "Safe," in which Julianne Moore plays a woman who has extreme environmental sensitivity (or does she?). Both films address extreme beliefs and their consequences, and both have characters traveling a similar route, from Los Angeles (or suburban L.A. in the case of "Safe") to the desert. Check it out:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/
So weird dude....
I watched this movie last Sunday and "Safe" was the very first film that came to mind when watching it. The bleak yet somewhat comedic deadpan atmosphere of both films is almost identical to one another.
So very true. Maybe if Mimi Rogers and Julianne Moore had hooked up, their lives wouldn't have been such a mess -- and that little girl would still be alive.
shareI don't think Safe is as pointed or focused as this movie. It's more ambiguous.
I really wanted to enjoy Safe and rushed to see it when it first came out....but I remember the movie making me restless. I tried again and rented it recently, and still couldn't stick with it.
But, I LOVE The Rapture.
Fair enough. I like "Safe" precisely for its ambiguity -- is she physically ill, or "just" mentally ill? -- but I love both films.
shareAlso, as I recall, the heroine of Safe is much wispier...she's sort of dithering and lost. Which is how a lot of people ARE, but I just didn't want to hold her hand for 2 hours.
Mimi Roger's character in this movie has a lot more CONVICTION than Julianne Moore's character. Sharon really lays it on the line, throughout all the changes in point of view her character goes through.
I found that much more bracing.
I didn't want to hold her hand for two hours either, but I didn't mind watching her flail about while her husband, doctors and, ultimately, the bizarre clinic (or was it a cult?) either denied she was ill or insisted they knew how to cure her. I was satisfied that "Safe" raises more questions than it answers because there are many people who are all too willing to isolate themselves from a society they consider toxic -- and, on the hand, I'm not sure that's a bad idea.
Anyway, I'm glad you liked "The Raputure." See you when the big one hits!
There is a website called Rapture Ready (I think) that is a bunch of fundamentalist Christians jabbering about the Rapture (what should they wear, will their pets get swooshed up with them, etc.) And the Landover Baptist Church website regularly prepares for The Rapture, too. Both sites are rather eye opening.
I think I'll end up in purgatory with Sharon, so I carry a picnic basket of sandwiches with me at all times. AND a sweater.
Yes, those sites are frightening indeed. It seems we've had so many "ends of the worlds" – during my lifetime, at least – that even the most fervent believers would have given up on dying by now. Maybe they should market post-Rapture apparel: "The so-called Rapture came and went, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Isn't Landover Baptist Church a parody site? It is hard to separate the "truthers" from the spoofers on this subject.
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Or was it limbo? I'm not sure they really say, do they?
And isn't either purgatory or limbo a Catholic concept, now that I think of it? Sharon wasn't Catholic.
Now I'm confused :(
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Yes, I think you're right...it must have been hell she was in.
But I don't know if it was a shame she didn't get into Heaven. She didn't want to sell her soul to "God" by lying and saying she forgave him. She hung onto herself, and didn't kowtow to The Man.
STAND TALL, SISTER!
At least that quiet place looked like a nice place to nap. She'll probably be very well rested.
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But also....peaceful. Might need a sweater, though.
Look, hell could be a HELL of a lot worse! (Provided there even is one....which I don't believe.)
Yes.
I just watched 'The Rapture', and watched 'Safe' in 2011.
They are both unsettling and powerful films.
In the time between, my life has fallen apart completely, professionally and personally.
My wife - an atheist, left me. We watched, and loved, 'Safe' together a couple months prior to the split.
My career in I.T. is something I hate, and has become a part-time job netting 13k a year.
Every day is a nightmare.
The emptiness and agony of life makes me identify with these films that much more.
I understand completely why people would commit suicide or join a cult-like religious group.
Hello, MaxxxFreedom: That sounds like part film review, part cry for help.
I'm fully with you on the former, as well as the understanding on why normally sane people are driven to cults or suicide when things go seriously off track.
As for the cry for help, I wish I could offer you some kind of life preserver, but it's a difficult world and I have no answers. I'm not big on broadcasting my personal issues on the Internet (or any other forum, for that matter), but I find myself struggling quite a bit and don't know how I've made it this far. Somehow the movies and music I love have sustained me, or at least provided a distraction when life becomes unbearable. I hope you are finding some similar strength or diversion through everything you are facing.
I'm also comforted that the worst in my life is probably over and that whatever lies afterward, if there is anything, is no worse than my daily existence. All my best to you, which may not be much but it's all that I have.
I also thought about Safe while I was watching this. Both are movies that seem to be about one thing, but then make a shift into being about something else (not a plot twist but an actual change in the subject of the story).
shareGood point. I love the way both films completely shift gears and detour into another movie entirely.
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