![]() One of dozens of anonymous voices, parceled out in cubicles in a vast room, she conducts impersonal conversations with strangers. What did we have here? "The Rapture" opens with Mimi Rogers playing Sharon, a woman who works as a phone information operator. All I knew of Michael Tolkin, who wrote and directed "The Rapture," was that he was also the author of The Player, a cold, brilliant novel about a Hollywood studio executive who commits a murder more or less by accident, and then deals with the guilt in passages of excruciating paranoia. ![]() Certainly not a film that began with casual sex, and ended with a literal depiction of a fundamentalist view of the apocalypse. 8 at the Water Tower.) Walking into the movie for the first time, last Labor Day at the Telluride Film Festival, I hardly knew what to expect. It's a film with the same ambiguity of the Thomas-Hill hearings everyone sees the same thing, but nobody can agree on what it means. There are people who love it and many who hate it, but few who can remain on the sidelines. ![]() Here is one of the most radical, infuriating, engrossing, challenging movies I've ever seen. But not until Michael Tolkin's "The Rapture" has there been a movie to seriously consider what the end of the world might be like, if the biblical prophecies turn out to be literally true. ![]() There have been dozens of movies that dealt in one way or another with the afterlife, with death and heaven and hell. ![]()
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