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form y separately published work icon One Night Stand single work   film/TV   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 One Night Stand
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Four teenagers, two male and two female, spend one night and next morning together in the Sydney Opera House--while outside, the world becomes a wasteland, as nuclear war breaks out in Eastern Europe. The film leave the question of Sydney's destruction ambivalent, but does suggest a bleak outcome with the destruction of Pine Gap.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:

    1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
    2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat

    • A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
    • The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper. 

    3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.

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