The Last and First Men: existential sci-fi film by Jóhann Jóhannsson

We find ourselves filled, in spite of everything, with a triumphant love of our fate.

Olaf Stapledon

The Last and First Men, a film based on the book by Olaf Stapledon, is the sort of brooding, grey on black meditation on human existence that plunges me into silence. The good silence of death and resurrection, rather than the drowning silence of depression.

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