In an intermittently moving film, an oil baron and his family spend the post-apocalypse underground.
Michael Shannon plays a former oil baron who has fled environmental catastrophe and taken his family and a few attendants to a facility built deep inside a cavernous salt mine. Their living quarters are lovely and ornate, filled with priceless art and elegant furniture. He and his wife, played by Tilda Swinton, are devoted to the raising of their twentysomething son, a naive and childlike man played by George MacKay.
Perhaps this one rich family’s vanity—the notion that they, over all others, must endure—is the vanity of a whole planet, rapacious with personal need at the cost of everything. Oppenheimer’s film is firmly an environmentalist one, a soft-spoken excoriation of industries and their leaders who hasten the destruction of our climate. We consumers are at fault, too, though those of us without the resources to build underground arks will feel the consequences sooner.
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