The Philosophers

Tune in to IQ FM and delve into intellectual debates on life and survival. It’s actually not so bad, you just have to accept a few words of nonsense your brain will refuse to get over. Mainly the fact that this class in Jakarta doesn’t seem to contain a single actual Indonesian person. It’s more like pretty chicks and male models from Beverly Hills 90210. It looks as if they were all made of plastic. I also think that since they’re all studying philosophy, they could have done a better job thinking about survival. For the entire time, I couldn’t shake the feeling that none of the people were able to defend themselves. But in the end, the girl approached the thing from a different perspective that the teacher (and myself for that matter) didn’t think of and surprisingly, I found her idea quite interesting. That’s why I’m giving this movie a three-star review. (31/10/2014)

Absolutely amazing idea. The world is facing a nuclear apocalypse and the teacher has twenty students. One-tenth of them (so 10 out of 21) have a guaranteed spot in the bunker. The rest must stay outside. They will either be killed or wait for the approaching radioactive fallout. Whom will they choose? How will they decide? Who has the right to live and who doesn't? An excellent idea, only it eventually lost any sense and any truly meaningful message. The final discovery is just the icing on the cake of an intriguingly developed film. (24/04/2014)