The film is one of the best last-man-on-earth movies (at least for the film's first act, more on that later) and stars Bruno Lawrence as the protaganist who awakes one day to find himself all alone, the result of a catastrophic science experiment that he had a part in (a not too subtle metaphor for nuclear armageddon).
The movie's first act is its strongest. In it, Lawrence begins to approach his dire situation reasonably, trying to determine what happened and broadcasting radio messages hoping to find other surviors. But he soon begins to descend into madness, culminating in perhaps the film's defining sequence, when he delivers a dictatorial speech to a group of cardboard cut-outs before storming in a chuch with a shot gun, promising to "shoot the kid" if God doesn't show himself.
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:: posted by Donald Melanson, 6/07/2006 | Comments (2) Links to this post |
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Aborigine man???
Maori
Is That meant to be a politicaly correct correction, yes more specifically Pete Smith is Maori, which is an aboriginal tribe, aborigine is defined by Websters unabridges as the earliest known inhabitants of an area or place. if your going to take the time to correct someone, do your homework.
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