One Man's Apocalypse Anxiety Led to This Deeply Poignant Ghost Fable

How long has it felt like the world has been crumbling in slow motion? Underneath the rise of AI and the increasingly untenable climate change fiasco is an unshakeable sensation that we're on the precipice of total annihilation as a species. Some films have tackled that sense with more abrasive and upfront tactics, like Joker or Don't Look Up, reaching through the screen to shake its audiences into being impressed at their high-minded shouting about how 'everything is f**ked.' Other films took on a quieter and more resigned approach, such as David Lowery's A Ghost Story, barely speaking above a lyrical whisper as it tells a story of life moving on past its characters, one that Lowery said was inspired by his own fears and feelings about the state of our modern world.