These people are acting very civil considering they do not have much time to live. I realize the movie was made in 1959 and probably then it was very shocking.
The acting was top notch. Ava Gardner was beautiful.
The scenes where the streets were empty-where were the people? they all went inside to die peacefully? come on!
Interesting concept using Australia. Still not bad.
6 out of a 10.
I recommend that you read the book. It's haunting and explains about the pills that are readily available to help people end the horrible effects of radiation.
Why ain't you at the garden party you heathen?
What do you mean by Chao's.
Chao's is a nonsensical word.
Maybe OP meant chaos.
shareIt's not all that nonsensical, really. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism#Chao
shareChao's? You mean the chinese restaurant or what? What the hell is the OP talking about?
shareWell, assuming you mean chaos, I thought the passivity of the people facing death was a statement paralleling the passivity of the people in the mid-50's in their acceptance of the nuclear arms race. You have to understand the times; this book and film gave a lot of impetus to the "no more nukes" movement.
So you missed pornographic violence, people yelling and cursing hyterically and killing each other for no reason? Did you miss the gore, the rotting corpses, scenes of torture and mutilations, perhaps a little cannibalism, the open mockery of anybody that acts quiet dignity and dutifulness.
You have plenty of other films to satiate your thirst for watching the vilest aspects of human nature.
All that nihilistic garbage that we are spoon-fed by "reality" TV and films want us to believe that all us are just a bunch of animals guided by the basest instincts, glorify violence and irrationality and mock all human virtues: honour, altruism, patience and courage in the face of adversity, devotion to duty, hope.
All that makes today films so disgusting is what I didn't miss one bit in this film. Thanks God for old films.
Why would there be chaos at the end? The wild people would have already extreme sported themselves to oblivion long before the final days. The remaining people are civil and trying to maintain the pretense that life will continue on for as long as they possibly can. Chaos would break the spell that they are trying so desperately to maintain. Its the same reason the song is repeated so often in so many forms throughout the movie, simply I am going to live my life and will die as I choose and not like an animal or some panicked trapped thing. I think its a super movie, one of the best. Makes you think, which of course was the purpose.
shareSo you missed pornographic violence, people yelling and cursing hyterically and killing each other for no reason? Did you miss the gore, the rotting corpses, scenes of torture and mutilations, perhaps a little cannibalism, the open mockery of anybody that acts quiet dignity and dutifulness.
You have plenty of other films to satiate your thirst for watching the vilest aspects of human nature.
All that nihilistic garbage that we are spoon-fed by "reality" TV and films want us to believe that all us are just a bunch of animals guided by the basest instincts, glorify violence and irrationality and mock all human virtues: honour, altruism, patience and courage in the face of adversity, devotion to duty, hope.
All that makes today films so disgusting is what I didn't miss one bit in this film. Thanks God for old films.
"The scenes where the streets were empty-where were the people? they all went inside to die peacefully? come on! "
And I'm sure folks like you would be out on the streets raising hell and destroying things until you literally COLLAPSE and die in a puddle of your own FILTH from the vomiting and diahorea of radiation sickness! Me? I'm taking the government issued suicde pills, dying clean, in my own bed, with my loved ones near.
I think I'd be looking for the nearest Ferrari and champagne dealerships.
Incidentally just thinking being as this is Australia I can't remember seeing a single Aborigine?
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