The Quiet Earth (film)/YMMV

These things about The Quiet Earth (film) are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

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.

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 save Joanne and Api.
Zac never intended to get the remote control, and decided to 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.

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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