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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Justified. The film was released worldwide; the book is difficult to find even in New Zealand and nearly impossible to lay hands on elsewhere.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Two possible explanations for Zac's actions in the ending.
**# {{spoiler|1. Zac realized on his way back to his house that he didn't have time to get the remote control system, because the [[Depopulation Bomb]] was going to happen again too early. He took the truck in to try to [[Heroic Sacrifice|save Joanne and Api.]]}}
**# {{spoiler|2. Zac never intended to get the remote control, and decided to [[Driven to Suicide|commit suicide]] by blowing himself up, because he still felt guilty and isolated. He thought Joanne and Api would be better off without him.}}
* [[Conflict Ball]]: Api's apparently holding this when he tells Joanne why he and his best mate had been fighting. The way he phrases it seems to be meant only to cause a conflict between himself and Joanne and prompt a fight that Zac unwittingly is pulled into. If he'd told the whole truth, all of that could've been avoided.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The only character of color in the film is rough and violent and obviously has military training, in sharp contrast to the other characters.
** Zac and Joanne's conversation as they're setting off to look for survivors.
{{quote|Zac: We might find all manner of horrors. Politicians... Transvestites... }}
*:* Shortly before this conversation, Zac had gone on a highly destructive rampage while wearing nothing but a woman's slip. YMMV on whether or not this makes it worse.
 
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