... The approach Hartley takes in this film involves creating a real world environment, filled with ordinary everyday people, and then adding a bunch of bizarre and uncanny events. ... Audry’s fascination with the nuclear holocaust is somewhat of an outlet for her to express her dissatisfaction with the predictability of her life. Until she meets Josh Hutton, she sees no purpose in her life because it is all going to end horribly one day. Emmet, Audry’s jealous ex-boyfriend, is on top of the world until Audry dumps him because she wants nothing to do with him any longer. ...
On the realistic approach, Hartley intrigues his audience with oddness of ordinary life through realism. ... Much of the focus of this film is on the real lives of people that occupy the town of Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York; where I spent about eleven years of my childhood life.
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