In 1980, in the middle of the Cold War and a year before becoming the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan evoked in a program the “Armageddon”. The end of the world seemed possible to him. This show appears briefly on the Graff family television screen, but if James Gray chose to title his eighth feature Armageddon Time, it is less for geopolitical reasons than to underline the turbulence that the young Paul, 12, will go through. That we discover in the opening sequence in a public school in Queens, where he becomes friends with Jonathan, in the crosshairs of the teacher because he has repeated a grade and is black.
