Carrie Rickey : Themes that 2013 movies tackled included survival , economic exploitation . Rickey : Many character - driven films featured characters who tried to take advantage of others . She said a number of films had the idea : Forget about living , survival is enough . Anderson : Of course , we have the usual end - of - the - world and large - scale attack movies .
Carrie Rickey : Themes that 2013 movies tackled include survival , economic anxiety . Rickey : Many character-driven films featured hustlers who tried to take advantage of others . She says a number of films explored the idea : forget about living , survival is enough . Rickey : Of course , we have the usual end-of-the-world and large-scale attack movies .