Saturday, January 31, 2009

The Quiet Earth

The Quiet Earth is a 1985 post-apocalyptic movie about, wait for it... -two men and a woman are the only survivors of world-wide catastrophe, and a bi-racial love triangle ensues. (yawn)

You can watch it online in 11 parts, thanks to googlevideo. [update: This is no longer available online.]

1000 Misspent Hours gives it good marks, saying
The Quiet Earth is about people rising above their differences— and not in some cliched, touchy-feely, politically correct, it’s-a-small-world-after-all way, either.

Moria says,
The film is most effective in its conveying the barrenness of humanity’s absence.
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Far less effective is when the film abandons the lyrical, visual poetry of isolation and introduces two other characters in the second half. Here it merely becomes a trite love triangle – and one that is not entirely satisfactorily dealt with.

DVDTalk also has a review. ListVerse names it one of the best of the 80's.

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