{"id":4306,"date":"2016-03-24T16:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2016-03-24T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:23:57","slug":"after-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/read-watched-tapped\/recently-watched\/after-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1928340\/\">After the Dark<\/a> is an exercise in choosing which 10 people out of a group of 21 will be admitted into a bunker to survive nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>There are three scenarios all playing out in very different ways. It&#8217;s a lot of fun to watch how logic is used to choose who will get a spot in a bunker and who will be left to (presumably) die from the nuclear fallout.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/after-the-dark.jpg?w=629\" alt=\"In the classroom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Does logic win? What is the most important basis to choose survivors on? Physical prowess? Profession? Mental capabilities?<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t tell you the answer as I don&#8217;t know it myself. But it&#8217;s a fascinating exploration into the choices we make and what drives them.<\/p>\n<p>Like all movies of this type, the real story is what comes after the story. <strong>What is the point of this movie?<\/strong> The reviewers on Netflix and I agree. The movie would have been better off without the last 10 minutes after the third thought experiment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/70299782\">After the Dark on Netflix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Dark is an exercise in choosing which 10 people out of a group of 21 will be admitted into a bunker to survive nuclear war. There are three scenarios all playing out in very different ways. It&#8217;s a lot of fun to watch how logic is used to choose who will get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - After the Dark","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1011],"tags":[1013,270,1014,1015],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-watched","tag-after-the-dark","tag-netflix","tag-thought-experiment","tag-thriller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}