Meaning of the ending?


I am totally lost. After they failed to stop the nuclear warheads, what the heck happened? I did not understand at all!

Go to [email protected] and ask them to work on the Apu trilogy and Sholay.

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It's been a while since I watched this movie, but from what I recall they sent all the women and children and some of the men away from the Antarctic base just in case Yoshizumi failed to prevent the nuclear disaster. Well, he did fail, and the human race was virtually wiped out. However, we then see life returning to the Earth, and when Yoshizumi finds the last few survivors, we're left with some hope that even these few people might be able to ressurect the human race. I think this is why the movie was originally called Ressurection Day. The idea that there's still hope even at that point makes for a pretty powerful ending, in my opinion.

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i would of thought after the missiles explosions there would be nothing left of the world not even a snowy patch of antatica. no north or south poles nothing. all those missiles creating intense heat to toast the world.

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The end in the uncut version is different. After the explosions he travels by feet back to the most southern parts of Latin America. There he finds the Norwegian girl and other women with children. The guy who developed the vaccine was also there.

Not very believable ending. Not at all.

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hi man where can i get the uncut version from.

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You can get it as part of a Sonny Chiba 'action' pack on DVD. Not that there is much 'action' or Sonny Chiba in Virus.

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Check this topic:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080768/board/flat/103859938

However, I never checked if this really is the full version. You should find this by yourself.

I prefer "the atomic ending". They should had omitted the part were is mentioned that some people will board the ship and everything fits perfectly. Although this way the ending looks too rushed, it is better than a guy who survived massive nuclear exchange and walked from the one end of the world to the other and found the last dozen people which somehow also survived.
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agreed. I loved the movie, hated the ending.

how the frak does someone walk accross the WORLD in the middle of what would be a 100+ year nuclear fallout?!

great movie, crap ending.



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Thank goodness I also passed Suspension of Disbelief 101

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Actually fallout from nuclear weapons would drop to acceptable levels within two weeks. It is not the same as some nuclear reactor exploding and leaving highly radioactive material with a half time of several decades (like in Chernobyl). Besides the worst radiation will be in the main targets i.e. the great cities. Avoiding them is no sweat.

The problem is the nuclear winter (which is a popular theory and probably would happen) which makes survival very difficult for those that didn't die in the explosions or radioaction sickness from the fallout.

Forget about the fallout. Without any live vertebrate animals on land he'd have to eat loads of insects and fish (shown in the movie) to survive the 4 year long walk.

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Well it's a bit unbelievable that a person could survive where there was massive radiation.

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I just watched the uncut version (never knew it existed) from the movie channel Pub-D-Hub from my ROKU (Streaming Device) Free channel. I really enjoyed it. I have watched the cut version many times and was surprised to see this hit the Public Domain. The uncut version is 2Hr 30Min in length. A ROKU account can be signed up at www.ROKU.com. Good luck.

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He was also injected with a vaccine that was radioactive. Maybe this gave him some kind of protection from the fallout. Just an idea.

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He's supposed to be in the basement of The White House.

I can tell you for nothing if he were there during a "MAD" exchange, which is what that missile attack was he'd have been vaporised by the 3rd or 4th missile.

And that location is targetted by over 50 warheads easily. And thats a LOW estimate. Even post STAR treaty.

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When the MASSIVE nuclear bombardment of the District of Criminals is over,
the gigantic crater that remains will be filled immediately by the radioactive
waters of the Potomac River. Some distant future civilization may enjoy swimming
and fishing there.

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>> I would of thought after the missiles explosions there would
>> be nothing left of the world not even a snowy patch of Antarctica.
>> No north or south poles nothing. All those missiles creating
>> intense heat to toast the world.

Sorry for posting to a very old thread, but I stumbled over this and I suspect others will stumble over it too, so I just wanted to set the record straight:

Even though nuclear explosions are big, the Earth is *really* big. I mean *really, really* big. The amount of land that gets totally "roasted" by a nuclear explosion is no more than a square mile, even for a big blast. Most of the damage from a nuke is from the over-pressure shock wave, not the heat.

Even if you set off 10,000 nukes(A ridiculously high number I'm using just to prove a point) at once spread over only the continental US, that would be just around 10,000, maybe at most 20,000, square miles of devastation. However, the continental US consists of a bit less than 3,000,000 square miles! So that's, at most, about 0.6% of the US land area.

And remember, probably 90%+ of the warheads in any exchange would have been thrown back and forth between the US and the USSR. With a few going to Europe/NATO, eastern bloc, India, China, Japan, Cuba, etc, but probably little to none headed towards South America, Africa, or Austrailia. Heck, even Canada might not get hit. So the percentage of devastated land mass taken over the entire world would probably be a tiny fraction of that 0.6%.


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The ending of the original film is great. The theme song "It's not too late to start again", and the theme "Life is wonderful", sums up the theme of the movie. At the end, penguins emerge from the ocean. Human and animal life is beginning again.

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