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8/22/2020

The Decline (2020)

A half-dozen doomsday preppers meet up for a training camp on the compound of a youtube-famous survivalist. They're blindfolded and surrender their phones in order to keep the precise location of the host's home secure. These are like-minded folks excited to learn how to do things like trap, clean and cook wildlife, craft boobytraps to keep their perimeters secure, etc. Stands to reason that paranoia is just beneath the surface for them all. When an accident claims a life and there's no consensus on what to do about it, things get ugly fast.

I could see the arguments on both sides as well as feel the inevitability of the conflict. It's a truly terrifying yet all-too-believable film for our time. 

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