Post Impact story
Post Impact is a 2004 disaster film, written and directed by Christoph Schrewe and stars Dean Cain, Bettina Zimmermann, Joanna Taylor, Nigel Bennett, and Hanns Zischler. Synopsis: An army captain is forced to leave his family behind during a massive impact event.
15 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| asteroid impact | choice | The title refers to the aftermath of a large cometary fragment impacting the Earth, western Russia specifically. A new geopolitical order was established within three years of the catastrophic impact, which had kick started the world into a new ice age. |
| coping with a loved one being in peril | major | The hero of the story Tom was desperate to find out whether his wife and young daughter had survived the ice age triggering cometary impact. Tom's journey culminated in his discovering their frozen bodies. |
| father and daughter | major | Tom risked life and limb to be reunited with his young daughter, only to find that she'd froze to death some time ago. Anna was worried that her scientist father, Dr. Starndorf, was going to work himself to death. Anna was reunited with her father three years after the massive cometary impact. |
| global cooling | major | The cometary fragment impact launched the world into an ice age. |
| orbital weapons | major | A main novelty of the film was the microwave shooting satellite weapon SolStar-2. Although originally designed to beam down power from orbit, the film built up to a disgruntled military man trying to use it to annihilate Tangier, Morocco. |
| remorse | major | Tom deeply regretted having let himself be forced to leave his family behind in the lead up to the comet impact. He was motivated thereafter by a need to go back to find out what had become of them. |
| speculative energy generation technology | major | The SolStar-2 satellite was originally designed by Dr. Starndorf to beam down microwave energy from space in an effort to lessen the world's dependency on oil. The military repurposed it into a weapon, however. |
| speculative weapon | major | A main novelty of the film was the microwave shooting satellite weapon SolStar-2. Although originally designed to beam down power from orbit, the film built up to a disgruntled military man trying to use it to annihilate Tangier, Morocco. |
| weapons of mass destruction | major | Much was made of an attempt to use the microwave shooting satellite weapon SolStar-2 to destroy the city of Tangier, Morocco. |
| betrayal | minor | Colonel Waters betrayed Hintze by leaving him behind when the cometary fragment was about to hit. |