Welcome to the age of depressing musicals: Films that sing through tragedy and the apocalypse

Welcome to the age of depressing musicals: Films that sing through tragedy and the apocalypse

It’s the end of the world, so there’s nothing left to do but sing. The film The End makes its pessimism clear right from the title. We are indeed at the end — specifically, inside a bunker where a deranged family lives decades after the Earth was ravaged by climate change. What the title doesn’t reveal is that, in the midst of all the drama, the characters start to sing to cope with their despair. Because, although it may sound unusual for the genre, The End, is a musical.

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