The Happening (2008)

The film opens in New York’s Central Park, where people inexplicably begin to commit suicide en masse. Three blocks away, construction workers are shown throwing themselves off buildings. The phenomena then appears in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, with a string of people all killing themselves with a police officer’s gun.

The protagonist, science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) in Philadelphia, is in the middle of class when the principal interrupts and ends class early due to the reports of an apparent bioterrorist attack on New York. Elliot and his wife, Alma Moore (Zooey Deschanel), join Elliot’s best friend and fellow teacher Julian (John Leguizamo) and his eight-year-old daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) as they decide to evacuate the city. The train they are taking soon stops at a small station in western Pennsylvania and train services are discontinued after the crew loses contact with “everyone.” News begins to come through televisions and cell phones as the pandemic is shown spreading across the northeastern United States, with its victims all showing the same symptoms of suddenly ceasing all activity, a loss of speech and physical disorientation, and a final calm and calculated act of suicide (the film has people jumping from buildings, shooting or hanging or cutting themselves, throwing themselves into barbed wire, offering themselves to lions, driving vehicles off roads, and lying in front of a grass mower). The initial assumption of terrorism is abandoned as the scale and concentration begins to outpace the means of any terrorist group.

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