#suffice to say... a film very close to perfection. Bruno Lawrence (sincerely one of our best and most under appreciated actors) is maybe
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
"We might not have been responsible. God may have just blinked."
"God blinked and the whole world disappeared. A world of noisy, brawling, wonderful human beings."
#the quiet earth#new zealand cinema#post apocalyptic film#1985#sci fi film#geoff murphy#craig harrison#bill baer#bruno lawrence#alison routledge#pete smith#anzac wallace#norman fletcher#tom hyde#sam pillsbury#john charles#i left a long rambling review of this on letterboxd that i can't (or won't) replicate here#suffice to say... a film very close to perfection. Bruno Lawrence (sincerely one of our best and most under appreciated actors) is maybe#both the last man alive as well as the person responsible for that. he meets up with two other survivors and there's standard genre#intrigues but this film is at its best when it focuses on Lawrence alone; a spectacular performance of intense loss‚ confusion#freedom and fear simultaneously. the scenes in which‚ driven near to madness by solitude‚ he dons a silk nightdress and picks up a shotgun#and goes looking for god are some of the most affecting‚ disturbing scenes within this post apocalyptic genre. the rest of the film once he#finds Routledge and Smith is somehow less satisfying (no reflection on two great actors) and a racial tension subtext is dealt with too#briefly and succinctly. but then the ending... you could read it as a profound and daring step in sci fi cinema or a dark‚ absurd joke#both readings have merit. a strange‚ fascinating‚ mercurial film. highly recommended with some caveats.#for more see letterboxd review idk
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