Last Night - What would you do?

What would you do with your remaining time if you knew precisely when the earth would end? How would you spend your last 24 hours?

One of my favorite movies addresses this question - Last Night, Canadian, 1998
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A bit on the dark side of course but a fun movie and a fun question.

At some point very near the end, in the last minutes, if the airfields have been abandoned, I would try to steal a fighter jet and go out in a nosedive at Mach +.

I especially like the guy with sex goals. LOL!

Last Night is a 1998 Canadian apocalyptic black comedy-drama film directed by Don McKellar and starring McKellar, Sandra Oh and Callum Keith Rennie. It was produced as part of the French film project 2000, Seen By.... McKellar wrote the screenplay about how ordinary people would react to an unstated imminent global catastrophic event. Set in Toronto, Ontario, the film was made and released when many were concerned about the Year 2000 problem.

The film was released to positive reviews for McKellar's direction and Oh's acting. It won awards at the Cannes and Toronto International Film Festivals, and three Genie Awards, including Best Actress for Oh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Night_(1998_film)

 

I would go see our daughter and granddaughter. Take Amy (my wife) and Murphy (our dog) with me.

 

I’d probably spend the day with my husband and our dogs at Hippy Hollow off Lake Travis. Maybe grill some hotdogs.

 

A thought experiment like this is interesting because for millions of people around the world, the world ends (they die) so it is interesting to contemplate what is really important to you.

There are many people I would truly love to see again (family separated by hours and hours of time), places I've always wanted to go, things I've wanted to see. But there is no practical way I could do most of these things with only 24 hours of warning (or 24 years for that matter) so for me there is nothing to do but to focus on the most important.

But I would probably spend some time at least trying to think of a way to beat the dealer so to speak.

 

Take a nap.

 

I just watched this again for the first time in many years.

What a GREAT movie! I knew I loved it and had it logged in my mind as a favorite, but I had forgotten how good it is.

 

"I want another doctor " Old joke, you've all heard it.

 

Am I the only one who knows, or do lots of other people?

 

Hookers and blow.... Hookers and blow.

 

I'd spend my last day here on PF.com explaining to the other side how the catastrophe was all their fault.

 

I don't know the answer to this one. Possibly the truth is that I'd just panic and have a nervous breakdown.

But it immediately makes me wonder: Is the way you'd spend the last day before the world exploded any different from the way you'd spend the last day before you (but only you) died? And, if so, why?

 

Fast and meditate.

 

It would be a much wilder 24 hrs if it was everybody's last day.

 

LMAO!!!!

 

Seriously? I'm more inclined to go crazy and eat big macs!

I mention taking a fighter jet in a nosedive because of the thrill. I think I would be thrill seeking with little regard for the consequences. I might end up killing myself before the actual end by doing something too risky.

In a somewhat similar sense, this comes to mind



When you get right down to it, that is how I've been living my life for the last ten years. LOL!

 

Unfortunately it's The Purge that comes to mind for me.

 

In the movie we never do find out exactly what is happening. But even as we approach midnight the sun is intense and getting brighter by the minute.

 

Why would the hookers want your money? Course with a huge stash of blow you can get plenty of women.

 

Know what? When?

 

that the world is going to end in 24. It makes a big difference if its my little secret, or if EVERYONE knows what I know. it changes my bucket list, if everyone, including my loved ones, has a bucket of their own, and is pushing and shoving each other to fill theirs first.

 

I just watched it for the first time.
Spooky little film.
I thought it was a comet getting closer rather than the sun getting bigger.
Neither would explain why there was no more night.


Have you seen Don't Look Up?

 

Oh yes, the entire world knows exactly when the world will end; down to the minute.

 

I like that they don't bother to try to explain it. Great science fiction is really about the human experience. And this movie excels at that.

Yes, I have seen Don't Look Up! LOL! That is probably how it would go too.

 

Reminds me of the Larry Niven short story “Inconstant Moon”.

 

I was joking....I would do all the blow by my damn self....