In director Geoff Murphy's cult sci-fi feature a global energy project has malfunctioned and scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) awakes to find himself the only living being left on earth. At first he lives out his fantasies, helping himself to material goods like cars and clothes, before the implications of being the last man standing sink in, along with his own culpability in the disaster. As this awareness sends him to the brink of madness, he discovers two other survivors. One of them is a woman.
The Quiet Earth was New Zealand's first foray into the sci-fi genre. Made fairly soon after this nation proudly declared itself nuclear-free, the story concerns an American scientific project to devise a cheap fuel for warplanes. ...
NZ ON SCREEN 2009
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