Silent Running Final Scene - Joan Baez (Rejoice in the Sun)

[SPOILER, WATCH OUT] The final scene and credits from the movie "Silent Running". Song "Rejoice in the sun" performed by Joan Baez

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Music

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• silent
• running
• joan
• baez
• 1972
• scifi
• science
• fiction
• drone
• dystopia
• rejoice
• in
• the
• sun

[OldStag72]

I am one of the thousands of seventies kids who cried big wet tears at the end of this film. Magical and inspirational. Thank you for uploading.

[philipg52]

I remember streams full of minnows,stickelbacks,nymphs,wa­terboatmen,tadpoles and watercress.Fields full of grasshoppers,beatles,butterfli­es,shrews,doormice,fieldmice etc.Hundreds of grass and herb varieties.Wild flowers everywhere.Gloworms fireflies and all sorts of insect life.Now its all sterile.Its all gone within the space of 50 years.What will we have left in another 50.It makes me cry like a baby.

[StevenErnest]

I love this film, always brings a tear to my eye, but there is a bit of a scientific lapse at the end. Instead of sending the dome out into the cold of space, where when the power runs out, the heating lamps will fail... He should have put it in orbit around the Sun. I know, then we wouldn't get the haunting final image, like a message in a bottle, dropped in the ocean for someone to hopefully find. A wonderful film!

[vincefsmith]

Beautiful song-one of Joan's best and most under-rated. Def. a tear-jerker on the film. It actually is one of sci-fi's most under-rated also-and most influential films. George Lucas quotes this over and over as being a direct influence on Star Wars...

[AussieGeoffA]

Forget about crying when we were watching this as kids. I'm middle aged and the tears have welled up right now, as soon as the watering can appeared.

Today's kids need to see this film and ponder its inconvenient truth from an earlier generation.

[DanielRand]

I cried for ages after I saw this film for the first time, when I was about 5 or 6, in the early nineties. Christ, it still gets me today. Ever since we started getting more and more complacent, and letting more of our world slip into the decay it now is, I haven't seen this repeated. This or Fern Gully, or any of those other, early warnings about our decadent, destructive ways. Strange that.

[ickleshouse]

@julesflower1 yeah, im with you guys and the crying. I was a young kid when i watched this and since then find small things and gentle thing sad, not because they are wrong but because they are disappearing.

[ickleshouse]

@OldStag72 glad to know it wasnt just me, made the mistake of leaving a note for my mum at bedtime. She was sympatetic but 2 friends saw it the next day and ...... i cried again.

True, magical and inspirational.

[MrTevB]

@OldStag72

So did I..but I had to wait to see this film on TV in the late 1970's to be able to...it's pretty brilliant...even now.

[llangol]

What happened to all the moths, we used to get, at night?.