This remarkable, at times scathingly funny film experiment portrays a group of women representing a fictional, all-female government of a fictional country. The women, sitting together in a control room, are facing an escalating nuclear threat from another state led by the imaginary President Twittler, a narcissist who sees politics as a TV show and loves to make sweeping proclamations. The protagonists, including actresses and real-life experts in defence, law and psychology, are trying to work out a way to avert a devastating war. But the symbolic Doomsday Clock, which counts down the time to global catastrophe, is relentlessly ticking in the background.
This remarkable, at times scathingly funny film experiment portrays a group of women representing a fictional, all-female government of a fictional country. The women, sitting together in a control room, are facing an escalating nuclear threat from another state led by the imaginary President Twittler, a narcissist who sees politics as a TV show and loves to make sweeping proclamations. The protagonists, including actresses and real-life experts in defence, law and psychology, are trying to work out a way to avert a devastating war. But the symbolic Doomsday Clock, which counts down the time to global catastrophe, is relentlessly ticking in the background.