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The Wave
Why this pick
Like After the Dark, it turns a teacher-led classroom exercise into an escalating ethical experiment, using youthful idealism and group pressure to generate mounting unease.
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MOVIE2013 1h 47m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Mr. Zimit, a philosophy teacher at an international school in Jakarta, has been challenging his class of twenty with thought exercises to prepare them for their future. On the last day of school, he holds an exercise in which he posits an oncoming atomic apocalypse. There is a bunker to shelter them for a year, but it only has supplies for ten people, so his students have to decide who of them should be allowed in. The top student, Petra, initially refuses to participate, but Zimit threatens to lower her boyfriend James' academic score if she does not.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sophie Lowe
Petra
Freddie Stroma
Jack
George Blagden
Andy
Katie Findlay
Bonnie
Jacob Artist
Parker
Erin Moriarty
Vivian
Maia Mitchell
Beatrice
Philippa Coulthard
Poppie