Skyline and No Warning

The moral case for dealing with having no warning of a crisis.

Some things happen without warning.

There's no prophecy from a magical oracle or a super intelligent scientist who saw the problem coming years before. No secret organization dedicated to protecting the world from things. You don't always get to prepare a proper defense and keep yourself safe from disaster. Often terrible things just happen and you have to deal with them in the moment. The people who usually have to deal with things without warning most are the ordinary people. A random person who is going about living their lives that aren't the chosen one or secretly connected to whoever's causing the problem. When this happens, they try their best to stay out of the worst of it. Simply avoiding death becomes the most important thing to the regular person on the street.

In such a situation, you find whoever you can to help you. Dealing with something like a disaster or an attack of some kind means you can't be very picky about who you associate with. Naturally, the thing they have in common with you is the fact that they don't want to die any more than you do. This gives you a kind of solidarity you wouldn't find anywhere else. Old problems like things you might have done to each other in the past don't matter. Which doesn't mean they can't affect your decisions when figuring out how to save themselves. You might be tempted not to help someone in a critical moment. Especially because in some situations, saving that person could put you in danger or other people if you're not careful.

Still, the thing you have in common is a desire to survive. To not be killed by whatever is coming or has arrived but hasn't hit you yet. It no longer makes sense to focus on the past or even in some cases the future. Because there's a chance you won't have a future if you don't survive this horrible event. As a result, your whole life becomes the current moment and making it to the next one. You just can't be sure of anything when you have no warning. That's part of the point of something happening with no warning. It's in those moments that you find out who you really are. What you're willing to do in order to survive and what you aren't.

Skyline is about what happens when you have no warning. Jarrod, as played by Eric Balfour, is the middle of a serious crisis. Not necessarily a personal crisis or a professional crisis, a serious one. Aliens have come down without warning and they seem to want to kill as many human beings as possible. He doesn't have a chance to prepare or consider all the options beforehand. There are no government agents coming for him to be the chosen one that might make him the key to saving the world. Along with the people in his life and a few strangers, he has to deal with things all on his own. Not knowing if he's going to survive to see another day or even another moment.

It's a fascinating thing to watch and you should do yourself a favour and explore the problem of acting without warning by checking out Skyline as soon as you can.

Skyline is available on Amazon.

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