How Do You Know When the World Is Over?

Drive My Car director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist begins and ends with the camera tracking through a forest, looking up. In the first shot, daylight streams through the canopy of trees; the mood is contemplative. The later shot feels decidedly grimmer: Night is settling in, and the sky is a deep, dark, almost-black blue, the moon shining through a haze of what might be clouds or smoke, as we hear distressed breathing on the soundtrack. In between those two...