The Quiet Earth (1985)
Directed by Geoff Murphy
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
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A fawn sprouts pink flowers from its horns, crystal structures rise from the sand (a visual that reminds us of 1985’s The Quiet Earth).
Apocalyptic in a way that reminds of Geoff Murphy's The Quiet Earth and legendary British novelist John Wyndham's ( The Day of the Triffids ) end-of-days ethic, the picture resolves ultimately as something of a forced morality play and a cautionary fable about man's inhumanity to man.
When I read he was from New Zealand, I was reminded of a 1985 New Zealand science fiction film that is similarly low-key, called "The Quiet Earth."
So we’ve got Short Circuit , WALL-E , The Road and The Quiet Earth as the most obvious reference points.
We either go down in flames, screaming, in bombastic spectacles like Independence Day and 2012 or we are extinguished with a little more dignity and grace, contemplating the fragility of our humanity and our place in the scheme of things in films such as The Quiet Earth and Z for Zachariah .
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There have been gentle apocalypses before, to be sure, like 1985's lyrical " The Quiet Earth ," the excellent " Last Night " (a 1998 film I love so much I had to work to get past my initial knee-jerk unfounded resentment over this film's seeming resemblance to it) and many more.
Ditto the not-made-for-TV When the Wind Blows, The Quiet Earth, and On the Beach.