The Quiet Earth Nothing like a good ol’ New Zealand Post-Apocalyptic movie to really get the brain moving. Because this movie is a trip, man.  Dude wakes up the last person on earth, gets sad, gets happy, goes insane, almost ends it all, then goes even crazier. Then the movie gets weird. It’s definitely a 20th century film, much slower pace than I’m finding I’m now used to.  So much stimuli in today’s films, it’s jarring to watch something like this, from the 70s, where the pace is decidedly slower, more considered. But the acting is solid, the script is strange without being obtuse, and it takes some interesting turns I didn’t see coming.  Which I always appreciate. B+

The Quiet Earth

Nothing like a good ol’ New Zealand Post-Apocalyptic movie to really get the brain moving.

Because this movie is a trip, man.  Dude wakes up the last person on earth, gets sad, gets happy, goes insane, almost ends it all, then goes even crazier.

Then the movie gets weird.

It’s definitely a 20th century film, much slower pace than I’m finding I’m now used to.  So much stimuli in today’s films, it’s jarring to watch something like this, from the 70s, where the pace is decidedly slower, more considered.

But the acting is solid, the script is strange without being obtuse, and it takes some interesting turns I didn’t see coming.  Which I always appreciate.

B+

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