Spontaneous

Although its a little campy and cringy at times, its an overall very entertaining film with a good message. Tries to be too clever at times but is 100% worth the watch. Don't believe the haters and go in expecting a fun movie not Shawshank redemption and you will enjoy it!

Imagine if your best friend just literally exploded in front of your face. Actually. Don't. It's kinda awful.

That's the main gist of this story. From some day on, students in a certain high school class start exploding, so they just vanish, i.e. Become nothingness. Our characters have to deal with the horrors and unpredictability of this and inevitably make a few decisions that they otherwise would have not.

These explosions are supposed to be seen metaphorically. Life is hard, everything can happen at any time. Life can end at any time, s*** happens. So the really, you have to start living and enjoying your life. Do dare to take some chances that you might have been too afraid to. Ask out the girl you have a crush on, go to this event that you're still unsure of, finally start learning this thing that you're procrastinating on. Life is short and life is unpredictable. Begin before it's too late.

While the metaphor is good (albeit cliche), I was somehow pretty bored by this movie. It somehow took me about two weeks to finish. Really, it was just going nowhere, we all knew that the lover was eventually going to explode and we all knew that these lead to some sort of desperation. They basically didn't try to make any explanations about the explosions and many actions seem so unrealistic. Would parents really allow their children to still go to school after this? Would Dylan's mom really talk like that? Etc etc. It just didn't feel right.

Make today the first day of the rest of your life, live every day as if it's your last, seize the day, seize the moment - but does it really matter or make any difference and can you really do anything about it. That all depends on your nihilistic tendencies which, after watching this, may have become increasingly acute.

So I'm a big fan of horror/disaster movies and I always get a kick out of the deaths/mayhem. This was the first movie I've ever seen where I was genuinely wishing for the mayhem to stop. And not because it was gratuitous or got tired, but because something about this movie felt very authentic and relatable. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time praying for the next death not to come because these kids felt real and I didn't want their story to end. Although the premise is obviously ridiculous, the characters in the movie take it seriously which is such a breath of fresh air from all the movies that know they are movies and make the dialogue consist of nothing more than snappy repartee and quotable sound bites even in the face of despair. Which is not to say there isn't any witty dialogue, in fact it has some of my favorite lines I've heard in movies, but they all feel well placed and authentic. These characters just feel genuine and so you as the viewer can't help but sympathize with them and feel the same sense of dread over their potential demise.

Overall, this is a very unique movie that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend.

I was not expecting this movie to have such metaphorical depth of story, I was blindsided with emotion. The soundtrack makes it feel brilliantly real and resonating.

I watched this movie on April 13th of 2021, a day on which I couldn't muster myself out of bed, my energy and depression being mentally crippling. I saw symbolism to the stigmatic topic of suicide, and I was blown away by the courage of the creators behind this movie to hint towards that epidemic at all. Beautifully executed in my opinion. I watched it again with my 15 year old son, and he was well overcome with emotion as well. Thank you, for sharing this creation. I'm grateful. It made me feel... Alive.