The Philosophers (2013)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: John Huddles
	Actors: Maia Mitchell, Bonnie Wright, Freddie Stroma
	Country: USA, RI
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 06.09.2013, CINEMA theater, MFFF2013
Synopsis: In a private school in Jakarta, a class of brillant students practices a thought experiment for their last day of Philosophy lesson: a nuclear apocalypse occurs and they have to chose ten people out of twenty to survive in a bunker.
Review: The look of the movie (from its trailer) motivated me to go see it: when the students practice though experiments, their characters are transported into the imaginary world consisting of a beautiful landscape, a bunker and nuclear explosions all around. Discovering the concept of the movie and hearing philosophical discussions during the first half hour was also interesting. But then I found that the decisions of the characters were too arbitrary: at some point you cannot even try to particiate to the experiment yourself because of too many variables and surprises in the movie. And the choices made in the last experiment in the last half hour finished to kill an otherwise good concept.
Rating: 4 /10