History Film / TheQuietEarth

* LoveTriangle: Between Api, Joanne and Zac. They ''are'' the only known people left on Earth, so it's not surprising.

* ResetButton: [[spoiler: Zac does his HeroicSacrifice thinking there's a chance everything will be returned to normal and the population restored from whatever dimension they might or might not have been sent to. The film never says [[GainaxEnding whether it worked or not.]]]]

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Zac. [[spoiler: Which makes the ending a true FridgeHorror, since he's not only no longer isolated from other people but from his own ''planet'' and possibly ''dimension''. Alternatively, the Universe might have been changed in such a fundamental way that it's actually ''Earth'' which is now a moon of Saturn. In a way, that's even scarier.]]

''The Quiet Earth'' is a 1985 UsefulNotes/NewZealand film directed by Geoff Murphy, starring Bruno Lawrence as a scientist who awakens in a hotel room to find himself [[LastOfHisKind the last man on Earth.]] The film was originally [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on a novel]] by Craig Harrison, but bears [[InNameOnly very little resemblance]] to the novel's plot.

''The Quiet Earth'' was a 1985 film created in UsefulNotes/NewZealand and directed by Geoff Murphy, starring Bruno Lawrence as a scientist who awakens in a hotel room to find himself [[LastOfHisKind the last man on Earth.]] The film was originally [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on a novel]] by Craig Harrison, but bears [[InNameOnly very little resemblance]] to the novel's plot.

* SocietyMarchesOn: In the early 80's, New Zealanders were having a lot of issues with the United States, which is why the US is the BigBad responsible for everything that happens in the film.

* ShownTheirWork: Noted astronomer Creator/NeilDeGrasseTyson cites this film as one of his favourite ever, due to the scientific accuracy. He even [[https://www.flicks.co.nz/features/hang-on-neil-degrasse-tyson-did-a-commentary-track-for-the-quiet-earth/ dissected the film's scientific aspects in detail]], which was included in a DVD reissue.

* ShownTheirWork: Noted astronomer Neil de Grasse Tyson cites this film as one of his favourite ever, due to the scientific accuracy. He even [[https://www.flicks.co.nz/features/hang-on-neil-degrasse-tyson-did-a-commentary-track-for-the-quiet-earth/ dissected the film's scientific aspects in detail]], which was included in a DVD reissue.

* InfantImmortality: Subverted, Zac finds a dead baby lying on the street, apparently having died of starvation, heatstroke or some health complication with no one to take care of it [[spoiler: and given that the baby had ended up there in the first place, this was subverted twice]].