The Happening
Plants are alive, but are they sentient and angry at people? The Happening explores a scenario in which plant life learns to release invisible chemicals into the air that make people kill themselves. At first, government officials think that the self-harming behavior is an attack from another country or extreme political group, but nature has actually decided that humans have got to go.
The film offers an early 2000s take on some of the early pandemic shutdown sentiments that talked about humanity being the disease, and our elimination via covid was going to “heal” nature. We just hope that if nature actually gets this angry at years of horrible climate policy, it takes that up with fossil fuel companies before turning on the rest of us.
