‘At six twelve precisely, Zac Hobson died, and the Earth fell silent’.1 As the sun pulsates overhead, he awakes with a sore head to discover, over the course of the following days, that he might be the only man left alive on Earth. The first act of Geoff Murphy’s 1985 film The Quiet Earth, in which Bruno Lawrence plays a scientist who emerges from a failed suicide attempt, is a bleak vision of the mental breakdown that follows a lone survivor’s initial euphoria at being liberated from the expectations of social behaviour and economic ...
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