I will never forget this film. I saw it in a theatre in 1983. I also taught an abbreviated version of the screenplay to my English students. This is about a world without hope and what we do when that happens. I think about "Children of Men" or "Childhood's End" or "On the Beach" and what our human condition is when there is no future. This film with the amazing Jane Alexander has to do with selflessness and sacrifice when there is no endgame. The scene where love and sex are talked about with the dying daughter. The birthday party with the graham crackers and the jam when foodstuffs have dried up. The finding of the Teddy bear and so on. It's horrifying enough when a person knows he or she is going to die, but this is a world. Yet here are are again in 2017, still using the phrase, "if you start something, you will be wiped from the face of the Earth." Let us be diligent and not stupidly think that if it happens somewhere else, it's not going to affect everyone.
