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      In this avant-garde scene from the movie Quiet Earth, Zach Hobson, the mentally distraught protagonist, has just discovered that he is not only the last man alive on earth, but also the man responsible for the end of humanity.
      Director Geoff Murphy underscores the depravity of Hobson's mental condition by having him dressed in a woman's silk nightgown, sitting with a shotgun across his lap, watching a recording of a Cold War newscast. Suddenly becoming enraged by the anchorman's speech, Hobson yells at and shoots the TV as if he is attempting to escape his guilt by destroying all evidence of it. Proclaiming himself ruler of Quiet Earth, Hobson then tries to explain himself in his inaugural address to a distinguished crowd of cardboard cut-outs, forcing them to cheer in agreement with an array of recordings that he set up amongst them.
      In the course of his speech, Hobson visibly displays strain under the weight of 5 billion souls. Though he did not intentionally destroy the human race, he was fully aware of the potential evil that could be done by his work. He ignores his conscience, which screams warning, in order to indulge in the resulting status and power. He knowingly turns over power that no man should wield to "mad-men". He falls victim to the human tendency to abandon ones own virtues in inexpedient attempts at immortality, thus he is the one that is "commended to live".
   While The Quiet Earth does not actually involve immortality directly, the themes of the corruptibility of man and man's avaricious desire to become his own God are concurrent and serve to teach man kind that the scientific path to immortality will have no short-cuts.