Two story
Two soldiers, a man and a woman, are the only survivors of a war – and they are from opposing sides. Directed by: Montgomery Pittman. Story by: Montgomery Pittman.
9 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| romantic love | choice | As per the closing narration: this was a love story about two lonely people, in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, who found each other. |
| war of mutual annihilation | choice | The story is set in a deserted city in the aftermath of an apocalyptic war between two unspecified nation states. |
| communicating with someone who speaks a different language | major | The man (an English speaker) and the woman (a Russian speaker) struggled to communicate with each other. |
| putting differences aside | major | Two soldiers from ideologically opposed factions ultimately realized that it was pointless to continue fighting now that everything either one of them stood for had been annihilated in an apocalyptic war. |
| surviving in a wasteland | major | Two soldiers from opposing factions found themselves alone together in a deserted city in the wake of an apocalyptic war of mutual annihilation. |
| trust in a potential foe | major | Time and again the the two people found themselves unsure about the other's (or their own) intentions, yet chose to keep trying to get along. |
| enemy point of view | minor | The sight of some patriotic posters in an army recruitment center reminded the female solder that the male soldier was her sworn enemy, and she subsequently attempted to shoot him. |
| loneliness | minor | We saw a male and female soldier, perhaps the last two people on the face of the Earth, stumbled upon one another in a deserted city. |
| the senselessness of war | minor | The man soliloquized about how moronic the fighting had been and continued to be. |