Take Shelter : This movie is about…

This movie is about…

...the crushing, maddening, and entirely unavoidable economic disaster faced in contemporary America.

Instead of focusing on whether Shannon's character's visions and nightmares are "real," consider more Chastain's character's role in the film and the precarity of their familial unit. The illness/prophetic question is merely a conceit; to get stuck on this is to lose the forest for the trees.

In the end, they will not weather that storm. And though it will destroy them, at least they will be together.
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