![]() ![]() ![]() She sets out to find her little brother, Sam, ostensibly to return his stuffed bear. The panicked surviving humans band together in the woods until their children are rounded up by the army for “protection.” Teen Cassie (Chloe Grace Moretz) escapes the collection and ends up alone in the woods with only a few guns for comfort. There’s a deeply anti-government streak to the politics of “The 5th Wave,” which imagines a world in which an alien race takes over the planet and starts eradicating the human species in a series of waves that destroy infrastructure, environment and health. The sight of teens with rifles is one we’re used to from news reports of a much more tragic nature, so the imagery definitely gives one pause. Which might actually be true, but it’s also the subtext of the dystopian young-adult film hitting theaters this weekend, “The 5th Wave.” The film opens with a winsome blond teen girl executing a man with a military-style assault rifle, and the teen gunplay only goes further from there. ![]() When the apocalypse happens, all that’s going to be left for us are the guns. ![]()
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