However, this thematic potency, this prioritization of interpersonal connection in metaphorical terms over character development, denies audiences that connection with those onscreen to create a fundamental, borderline hypocritical disconnect.

It’s a common activity for elementary schoolers across the country to twist and scoop Oreos into lunar phases. Far from Chris Fleming’s outcries of the staple being maimed, mutilated—desecrated—into an unrecognizable dust in frozen dessert shops from sea to shining sea, in schools, kids carefully sculpt the cookie to represent our space neighbor in its many modes.

Ultimately, the major tumor of this tale is that the cataclysmic event of choice simply isn’t compatible with the dark romantic comedy Borgli aims to tell.