Wed 5 May 2021 12.00 EDT
Once you get past its note of emo-mawkishness, thereâs something disquieting and poignant (and rather prescient) about this doomed love story of the future, from director Chad Hartigan and taken from a short story by LA author Aja Gabel.
Emma (Olivia Cooke) and Jude (Jack OâConnell) are a young couple living in an America ravaged by a pandemic causing memory loss. The disease has been causing planes to crash, because pilots suddenly forget how to fly, and marathon competitors to keep on running into the night because theyâve forgotten theyâre supposed to stop. The coupleâs best friends have been hit by the disease, and Emma and Jude are now themselves anxiously monitoring each other for the first signs of forgetfulness, and trying to hoard their romantic memories (so recently made) against the great forthcoming oblivion.