How I Live Now (film)
How I Live Now is a British drama film from 2013, based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Meg Rosoff, directed by Kevin Macdonald and script written by Tony Grisoni, Jeremy Brock and Penelope Skinner. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, Anna Chancellor, George MacKay and Corey Johnson. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Their summer fun ends when a terrorist coalition detonates a nuclear bomb in London that potentially kills hundreds of thousands the nuclear fallout reaches as far away as their home. In the aftermath, electricity goes out, and they learn from an emergency radio broadcast that martial law has been imposed. The next day, an American consular official arrives at the house and offers Daisy passage home. Unable to help her cousins, he advises them to remain indoors and wait for evacuation. After they move to a nearby barn, Daisy has sex with Eddie and decides that she would rather stay with them. The next day, however, the British Army storms the shelter and takes them to a nearby town. There, they learn that the boys and girls are to be evacuated to separate parts of the country. Both Eddie and Daisy resist separation, and Daisy is restrained with cable ties Eddie calls to her to return to their home when she gets the chance. Daisy and Piper are then taken to the home of a British Army major and his wife, who foster them. Determined to escape, Daisy discreetly begins hoarding supplies, but their neighbourhood is attacked by the enemy before she has time to take everything she needs.As Daisy and Piper hike through the countryside, Daisy interprets her dreams of Eddie as indications of his current situation. One night, Daisy is woken up and witnesses a gangrape. She wakes Piper up and they both flee. The next day, Piper starts whining, but Daisy threatens and warns her a deal if she doesnt be quiet, she will run and Piper will be left here on her own so she wont be able to fend for herself so she wants to see her brothers again as they head into the forest. Already disturbed by this experience, they discover a massacre at the camp where Isaac and Eddie were taken. Daisy reluctantly checks the bodies although Eddie is not among the dead, Isaacs body is. She mournfully takes his glasses and later buries them. As they leave, they are spotted by two armed men, who chase the
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