The second film on today's lineup concerning "The films I adored as a child" (the column is always the same, with a capital ERRE, namely The Disputable Triptychs of Aleph) is:
The Last Wave, 1977 - directed by Peter Wier, starring Richard Chamberlain.
The film is set in a contemporary time frame but without a precise date, with the location being Australia. It is permeated by a dark atmosphere surrounding something imminent, through the protagonist's dreamlike premonitions, who is white and seemingly disconnected from the local culture. This contrasts with the Aboriginal world, with all its secrets stemming from shamanism.
Humanity still exists, but for a short while; the catastrophe, this time climatic, is, according to the Aboriginal people, cyclical and relentless—the last wave will submerge the land; it hasn't been the first time and it won't be the last.
The point in this case is the climate. Could one have hypothesized a childish and gigantic rise of waters in the '70s? Ridiculous… well, not so much, Kisses ;)
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