History Film / TheDivide

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'''''The Divide''''' is an apocalypse film from 2012, starring Michael Biehn and Lauren German

New York is under attack. The tenants of and apartment building try to escape, but failing that try to get to the basement where the superintendent, Mickey, has evidently seen this coming and has built a fallout shelter. Several of the tenants make it in and are trapped in the building's sealed-off basement. The story begins.

* GenreShift: Starts out as an AfterTheEnd movie, moves into what seems to be ScienceFiction, then BodyHorror, then full on into ApocalypseAnarchy.

->''Not exactly the Garden of Eden.''

'''''The Divide''''' is an apocalypse film from 2012, starring MichaelBiehn and LaurenGerman

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: We never find out what happens to Marilyn's daughter]]

* TheWoobie: Marilyn, Marilyn, Marilyn.

* RiddleForTheAges: What the ''hell'' was the thing with the suit-wearing soldiers? Why did they needed Marylin's kid? What were they doing with the other children? Nothing is ever explained, and the sequence featuring them would be a borderline BigLippedAlligatorMoment if not for the fact that [[KnightOfCerebus everything]] [[BreakTheCutie goes]] [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth even]] [[FromBadToWorse further]] [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy into hell]] once they come and go. We also never find out the reason why the city was nuked (although [[ConspiracyTheorist Mickey]] briefly rambles about terrorism as part of his general [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain politically incorrect]] [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkassery])].

* RiddleForTheAges: What the ''hell'' was the thing with the suit-wearing soldiers? Why did they needed Marylin's kid? What were they doing with the other children? Nothing is ever explained, and the sequence featuring them would be a borderline BigLippedAlligatorMoment if not for the fact that [[KnightOfCerebus everything]] [[BreakTheCutie goes]] [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth even]] [[FromBadToWorse further]] [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy into hell]] once they come and go. We also never find out the reason why the city was nuked (although [[ConspiracyTheorist Mickey]] briefly rambles about terrorism as part of his general [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain politically incorrect]] [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkassery]].

* RiddleForTheAges: What the ''hell'' was the thing with the suit-wearing soldiers? Why did they needed Marylin's kid? What were they doing with the other children? Nothing is ever explained, and the sequence featuring them would be a borderline BigLippedAlligatorMoment if not for the fact that [[KnightOfCerebus everything]] [[BreakTheCutie goes]] [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth even]] [[FromBadToWorse further]] [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy into hell]] once they come and go. We also never find out the reason why the city was nuked (although [[ConspiracyTheorist Mickey]] briefly rambles about terrorism as part of his racist {{

* NobleBigot: Mickey is a complete {{Jerkass}}, loving the fact that he's lording it over the other basement's tenants, and spends some time rambling racist [[ConspiracyTheory conspiracy theories]] on who nuked the city, but we late find out [[HiddenDepths that he used to be a firefighter]] [[CynicismCatalist and his wife and child were killed (probably in a terrorist attack)]].

* BreakTheCutie: Marilyn on so many levels.

* RiddleForTheAges: What the ''hell'' was the thing with the suit-wearing soldiers? Why did they needed Marylin's kid? What were they doing with the other children? Nothing is ever explained, and the sequence featuring them would be a borderline BigLippedAlligatorMoment if not for the fact that [[KnightOfCerebus everything]] [[BreakTheCutie goes]] [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth even]] [[FromBadToWorse further]] [[MaddenIntoMisanthrophy into hell]] once they come and go.

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: The movie begins with a character staring directly into a nearby nuclear explosion. Said character is not blinded, nor even dazed, by this, and has plenty of time to make it to a nearby fallout shelter before the shockwave hits...

'''''The Divide''''' is a apocalypse film from 2012, starring MichaelBiehn and LaurenGerman

* BreakTheCutie: Marilyn.

* AHouseDivided: As stated in the movie, Al groups break down into self-interest in times of scarcity.

* Humans Are the Real Monsters