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What's the point of this flim again?


It is almost impossible to get the head around the concept behind this. This flim is basically about "What if all of us died and no human beings didn't exist anymore?", right?

It's totally thinkable and imaginable, but what's the point of talking about the world without human beings? If you won't be around, and your children or anyone else won't be around, would you really give a damn about what's gonna happen then?

What really bugged me the most about it though was those overly fascinated faces of so-called experts speculating what's possibly going to happen. As far as I know, it's pretty depressing concept when you think about it. It's just based on the assumption that when human beings disappear, every trace and footprint of humans will dramatically fall apart and collpase. What's so fascnating about all that?

This was one of the most pointless flims I've seen this year.

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Its a well made documentary on an interesting subject.
The only thing that makes no sense is why whatever wiped us out didn't wipe out any of the wildlife too.

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"The only thing that makes no sense is why whatever wiped us out didn't wipe out any of the wildlife too."

Alot of diseases affects only humans. Solved.

Now what I wonder is like the op, why is it an interesting subject?
When it happens it wont matter to us anyway since we'll all be dead. So why even care? I'm not trolling here I just want to understand your thinking.
No one really gave an answer to the op.

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Now what I wonder is like the op, why is it an interesting subject?
When it happens it wont matter to us anyway since we'll all be dead.


I think it is an interesting subject because it shows how small our impact really is on the world.

Think of it this way. Say a disease took out all of humanity except 100,000 people that are spread through out the world. These 100,000 people are not from civilized areas because those areas were hardly touched by what we call "civilization". They would not understand books and could not just keep everything going.

Eventually these people populate and grow and spread through the world. Say it takes them 2000 years (a short time to be sure). This show essentially shows us what they will see and how little of us they will know about.

That is why it is interesting.

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Sure, why not. But I think the documentary is interesting simply because it shows how fast nature will reclaim everything, like man hardly even existed.

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Well I think the main idea is to remind people that everything needs to be repaired.
WIth cracking infrastructure round the world and older population this is quite important massage. People simply regard a lot of thinks granted.
We are getting to lazy, thinking that rent seeking would guarantee us not to work at all. But what for is all that gold if there is no one to be paid just to maintained.
btw: I like the idea of this documentary because it does not show only the glamour of american society but also the megalomania and its consequence.

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What is more depressing to me is the fact that you have actually asked such a question.

I can't understand how you can so blithely overlook/forget/dismiss the twin concepts of CURIOSITY and SPECULATION! Didn't those notions occur to you? Don't you think maybe people make movies such as this because they're motivated by an eagerness to LEARN? Haven't you seen other films which are based purely on HYPOTHETICAL SCENARIOS? Haven't you ever VISUALISED something that doesn't exist and then tried to form an HYPOTHESIS about it?

That's the point of this film.

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Amen!

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And, I thank you.

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"The only thing that makes no sense is why whatever wiped us out didn't wipe out any of the wildlife too."

What's more interesting to me is that, in this documentary, humans just vanish into thin air. In a real-life scenario, extinction wouldn't equal disappearance. It would equal 6 billion+ human corpses.

Which is entirely too gruesome a concept to make a documentary with, yes, but let's face it: that level of decay would GREATLY affect the world after people.


"Now, bring me that horizon."

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that level of decay would GREATLY affect the world after people.


True. But all it would do is provide enormous amounts of fertiliser for the profusion of untended plant life that would follow the extinction.

Even then, it would take a long time for that fertiliser to become available. The vast majority of human beings would die indoors. You're not going to have hundreds of square miles of land covered with corpses. The corpses would be inside houses. They will decay, and the by-products will be more or less confined, until the buildings themselves decay to the point of being reabsorbed into the ground.

That would take a very long time. So, the environment wouldn't be drastically changed overnight.

It would just smell very bad for a while. But who's going to notice?

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Very true. And those who died outdoors would also sustain animals that would otherwise struggle.


"Now, bring me that horizon."

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