The late 60s and more the 70s years of the 20th century gives us a lot of movies with an apocalyptic background-story, for example "Planet of Apes", "The Andromeda Strain","Soylent Green" or "Silent Runnning". For some viewers of today they may looking cheesy, but they are all children of his time (try to imagine how cheesy "The Matrix" may look in 2030 :-) and they often don't set only on good action-scenes and special effects. Many of them have a background-story to think about it, because the 70s was the time, when people all over the world starts to get aware about our environment and nature, biological warfare and the possibility of the self-destruction of our culture or complete race. So the main question of many of these movies was: In what will our behavior result in the worst case?
"The Omega Man" is another of this "apocalyptic movies" of the 70s, and a very well made too. It focus on biological warfare and the results of it. Only one man had survived of our "old world", some others, "the family" are infected by the germs and condemned to die sooner or later, but before they die, they tried to destroy the last symbol of our old, technological world. They constructed their own logic to explain the circumstances and that the infection is a punishment for the errors that mankind made. And so did the almost dead "old world" and the already dying "new world" of "the family" fight the last struggle on earth. This movie is very worthy to see even today, in spite that we did not kill ourself in 1975. See it today as a alternate reality of a parallel universe, maybe it happened so for another earth in another universe and let us hope that our world in our universe will not end with a similar fate.
"The Omega Man" is another of this "apocalyptic movies" of the 70s, and a very well made too. It focus on biological warfare and the results of it. Only one man had survived of our "old world", some others, "the family" are infected by the germs and condemned to die sooner or later, but before they die, they tried to destroy the last symbol of our old, technological world. They constructed their own logic to explain the circumstances and that the infection is a punishment for the errors that mankind made. And so did the almost dead "old world" and the already dying "new world" of "the family" fight the last struggle on earth. This movie is very worthy to see even today, in spite that we did not kill ourself in 1975. See it today as a alternate reality of a parallel universe, maybe it happened so for another earth in another universe and let us hope that our world in our universe will not end with a similar fate.
