Posted on 11/25/2022 1:31:38 AM PST by Jonty30
I don't know why this movie wasn't released internationally, but the final scene that I'm posting makes it worth seeing, I think.
Basically, it's about an apocalyptic world, from a worldwide zombie epidemic. This man played by Martin Freedman gets infected by his wife, who became a zombie, has to figure how to get a young girl and an aboriginal youth to the youth's tribe, where they can be protected.
The scene I am posting I think was fundamentally powerful, from a Christian perspective because while he is dying he is figuring out how to allow his body to be used and keeping the children safe.
Sounds something like Vincent Price in The last man on earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film). What Wiki leaves out is that at the last, when Dr Morgan he is pursued by his killers (as a man whose immune blood can save the world) and retreats into a church and is impaled as he stands at the altar, that this was obviously an intentional analogy to Christ, by whose blood we have redemption. But in dying Morgan calls his killers “freaks,” and His last words were that they were afraid of him.
Aussie aboriginals, Hollywood portrays their religion as the only true religion.
While some may say that American indian religion is also portrayed as true and real, it is still on rare occasions portrayed as not (or as nothing special), while the aboriginals are always, 100% portrayed as having a real and true religion and connection to God (or whatever their religion is), as living on a different and authentic religious plane than the rest of humans.
Some might, sure. They want to bring us back to being pagans.
However, I was moved by the man’s sacrifice for the children, that’s all.
Loved this... his love and ingenuity was predictable but uplifting.
It's been literally months since I last re-saw "The Last Man on Earth," but was there, in fact, any implication in the film that Morgan had developed a serum? Are you perhaps conflating that film with "The Omega Man?"
I know that Dr. Morgan was an epidemiologist, and had been working on a "cure" (at least, until the world had effectively come to an end, leaving only him), but to my recollection, he had long since given up any hope of concocting a "cure."
Regards,
It's been literally months since I last re-saw "The Last Man on Earth," but was there, in fact, any implication in the film that Morgan had developed a serum? Are you perhaps conflating that film with "The Omega Man?" I know that Dr. Morgan was an epidemiologist, and had been working on a "cure" (at least, until the world had effectively come to an end, leaving only him), but to my recollection, he had long since given up any hope of concocting a "cure."
No, IIRC Morgan did not develop a cure, but instead he himself was immune, and thus as I said, his immune blood could save the world.
"Morgan hypothesizes that he is immune to the bacteria from a bite by an infected vampire bat when he was stationed in Panama, which may have introduced a diluted form of the plague into his blood." Morgan encounters a women who is part of a group who inject themselves with a combination of blood and a vaccine that allows the vaxxed to function normally with the drug in the bloodstream, but once it wears off, the infection takes over the body again, thus requiring periodic vaccination, When Morgan transfuses his own blood into her then she is immediately cured, and Morgan sees hope that, together, they can cure the rest of her people. Compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film)
Just rewatched it. Yes, Morgan gives the girl a blood transfusion, and she is immediately cured. He then states that they can "cure all the others." But then the idea is not developed.
Regards,
Morgan was labeled homophobic since he did not claim his blood could cure AIDS, and for not affirming homosexual relations (the primary means of infection).
Morgan was labeled transphobic since he did not claim to be non-binary, and use “them” as his pronoun, but identified as a biological man.
Morgan was labeled xenophobic, since he failed to ensure distribution would be prioritized according to (voting block) races favored by the racist Left.
Morgan was labeled a racist, since the only person that had been cured was of a politically incorrect race, and came from one, plus investigation of his ancestors found a Caucasian generations ago who lived in Mississippi. And he used arithmetic.
Morgan was labeled an environmental polluter due to his use of fossil fuels, and not driving a EV, or using solar panels.
Morgan was fined for living “off the grid,” in failing to connect to public utilities.
Morgan was charged with being the source of the plague since worked at a lab.
Morgan banned for posting fake news after an investigation by the AP could only find one claim of a cure.
In that scene he is dead and his body is nothing more than a mule carrying a cargo on its back, being lead by a dangling piece of meat on a stick. Without that dangling "carrot", who knows where he would be wandering looking for something to eat.
Yes, but he also knew that is what would happen to him. So, he used his remaining time to prepare for his carcass to be nothing more than a means of transpot.
For a secular movie, that’s pretty amazing.
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