Time Enough at Last (Twilight Zone)
For all the early readers out there...
Prisons and things like them such as that self-imposed prison loneliness seem common topics for today's dystopic world.. others simply call this "solace".
; )
The Twilight Zone was known for exploring themes of isolation and loneliness (this pilot episode, in fact, was about a man who winds up completely
alone in a small town) but “Time Enough at Last” does it better than any other. Social misfit, bank teller, and book nerd Henry, brilliantly played
by Burgess Meredith, often finds his daily life and obligations impeding on his one true desire: reading books. He’s apart from the world yet the
world is constantly hindering his one true passion, until the day he decides to take his lunch break in the bank vault; an H-bomb wipes out all humanity.
Time Enough at Last Twilight Zone
"Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired
against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter
a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself...without anyone."
Far sighted bank teller and avid bookworm, finding himself alone on the planet, Henry contemplates killing himself. That is, until he discovers the ruins of a library
with thousands upon thousands of books to read and literally no one on Earth to interrupt him. The Twilight Zone thrives on irony,
of course, and Henry trips as he picks up his first book, shattering his glasses, leaving him essentially blind.
The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 8 "Time Enough At Last"
Prisons and things like them such as that self-imposed prison loneliness seem common topics for today's dystopic world.. others simply call this "solace".
; )
The Twilight Zone was known for exploring themes of isolation and loneliness (this pilot episode, in fact, was about a man who winds up completely
alone in a small town) but “Time Enough at Last” does it better than any other. Social misfit, bank teller, and book nerd Henry, brilliantly played
by Burgess Meredith, often finds his daily life and obligations impeding on his one true desire: reading books. He’s apart from the world yet the
world is constantly hindering his one true passion, until the day he decides to take his lunch break in the bank vault; an H-bomb wipes out all humanity.
Time Enough at Last Twilight Zone
"Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired
against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter
a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself...without anyone."
Far sighted bank teller and avid bookworm, finding himself alone on the planet, Henry contemplates killing himself. That is, until he discovers the ruins of a library
with thousands upon thousands of books to read and literally no one on Earth to interrupt him. The Twilight Zone thrives on irony,
of course, and Henry trips as he picks up his first book, shattering his glasses, leaving him essentially blind.
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