What the fuck did I just watch?

Foreign films, they always address the hard hitting What Ifs? in life. Take the movie Force Majeure for instance. It asks the question What If? you're on a ski vacation with your family and one day at lunch a you see an avalanche heading towards you? There you are sitting on the deck of a fancy restaurant with your family at your fancy ski resort. Suddenly you see a wall of snow falling towards you, your husband says don't worry about it, it's controlled. But it looks like the snow is gaining up speed, all around you people are yelling crying and panicking and sudden rush to get off the deck breaks out. You grab your children and your husband, your husband... he grabs his phone and pushes someone out of his way and leaves you and your children behind to die. 

That's just what this jerk of a husband/father does. As it turns out it wasn't an avalanche but some kind of white out snow cloud. The rest of the movie the wife is trying to work out her traumatic experience and fear and disbelief that her husband could leave them behind to die while her husbands at first denies denies denies and then allows the full shame of what he did sink in. 

Naturally you would think that the wife has the moral upper hand the whole time, but not so fast. At the end her fight or flight and self preservation instincts kick in and it evens everything out. 

Edited to add that this film even has a surprising "Hey it's that guy!" moment. Actor Kristofer Hivju from Game of Thrones (so the internet tells me, never watched it) and the Wyndham Rewards Wizard plays a friend of the couple. At least I think he's a friend and not someone they just met during their stay.