In the Apocalypse, It’s Every Family for Itself

Post-apocalyptic movies reflect the selfishness we’re living through

Saul Austerlitz
GEN
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5 min readSep 4, 2020

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“A Quiet Place.” Photo: Jonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures

The family crosses a bridge, single-file, in silence. Movies always teach us the rules of the worlds in which they take place, and we rapidly learn that in the universe of A Quiet Place, sound is peril. Mother, father, daughter, and two sons proceed, in painstaking…

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Saul Austerlitz
GEN
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Author of Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era +4 more. Work published in the NY Times and many others. Teacher at NYU.