Immediately after Art is exposed to a toxic dust cloud, in Silent Night, he appears unaffected by the poison (or any symptoms are hidden by the trauma he suffers seeing the dead family in the car). The symptoms of exposure to Sarin (via Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) include muscle jerks, convulsions, loss of consciousness, paralysis, and respiratory failure. In effect, the gas attacks the nervous system like that of other known deadly gases like Sarin. Additionally, though Art’s mother, Nell ( Love Actually’sKiera Knightley), describes the poison as airborne and everyone in Silent Night refers to it as a gas, the water that flows when Alex turns on the tap near the end of the film is brown and has a foul odor lending to the idea that the water is tainted as well. Appearing first as small dust clouds and then tornados, the poisonous gas arrives in something of a superstorm that inexplicably involves lightning, thunder, and strong wind. The gas in Silent Night is never named and is described only in its appearance and effect, with many of its elements leaning to the supernatural. The only dissenters are Sophie (Lily-Rose Depp), who has recently found out she is pregnant, and Art, who voices his profanity-peppered doubt loudly throughout the film. As the holiday-movie banter and fiascos ensue, an ominous secret is revealed: the world is coming to an end and everyone plans to take a government-issued “ exit pill” to avoid a torturous death by poison gas. A familiar mix of personalities descends on the house (as is a tradition in ensemble holiday tales): The abrasive, brutally honest Bella (played by Lucy Punch from the Gossip Girl reboot) and her partner Alex the Diva, Sandra, and her boring husband Tony (along with their cartoonishly overstated brat daughter Kitty who is responsible for the drama in the younger set) and the heartthrob character, James, with his outsider girlfriend Sophie. Set in what appears to be present-day England, the film begins with the coming together of family and friends at the country home of Nell, Simon, Art, and his twin brothers Hardy and Thomas (who are played by Roman Griffin Davis’ real-life brothers Hardy and Gilby).
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