No Blade of Grass story
The film follows the survivors of a plague that has hit London in the not too distant future. When London is overwhelmed by food riots caused by a global famine, a man tries to lead his family to safety in Westmorland.
21 total · 12 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Roger Burnham and Mary Custance. |
| ecological destruction | major | Global mismanagement of pollution led to a virus emerging that killed off the world's crops and world civilization collapsed. |
| environmentalism | major | The film pointedly called attention to the dangers of pollution leading to ecological breakdown. |
| father and daughter | major | John Custance and Mary Custance. |
| food crop pandemic | major | A pollution caused crop virus resulted in a global famine that resulted in hundreds of millions of deaths around the world. |
| global warming | major | It was explained how pollution was keeping the sun's rays inside the atmosphere and how it would lead to the ice caps melting. |
| husband and wife | major | John Custance and Ann Custance. Andrew Pirrie and his wife until he shot her dead. |
| killing to survive | major | John Custance and his family and followers were put in situation after situation where they needed to kill to survive. |
| leadership | major | John Custance took control and led his family and band of followers to his brother's farm. |
| pollution in society | major | Cumulative residues of pollutants and pesticides cause of a virulent new disease arising in Asia, a virus that strikes all members of the grass family, including wheat, rice and maize. |