The monologue below is told by the main protagonist. Shots of what he is describing are shown as he's describing them, with it all coming back to the same scene of him walking up a hill. This is only the first draft of the script.
Nobody expected the end. We all spoke of the many ways that the apocalypse could come to be, but we did not prepare ourselves. We couldn't prepare ourselves. A sudden shift of the magnetic field within the Earth, a 'geomagnetic reversal', is what caused the disasters to occur; the many natural disasters. But the worst was what followed; the nuclear leaks. Gamma radiation poisoned certain parts of the Earth, with countries such as Japan being nigh impossible to survive in and the world generally becoming inhospitable to previous life. The gamma radiation not only poisoned the air, but much of the world's water supply, causing most animals which relied on water to become extinct.
The lack of animals led to cannibalism. We found ways of purifying the water, making us one of the only living sources of sustainable food. The human race became so degraded that they-we-chose to live lives of cannibalism. I've never murdered another for food. Never could after...after what happened. We eat what we find, whether it be human or not, but would never murder. There have been times when I've had to...to kill others in defence, but I always try to find an alternative.
Due to the inhospitable environment of the Earth, colonies arose. Civilisations walled off from the rest of the world, surviving on farming with purified water. The colony we lived in for many years after the end overflowed and we couldn't sustain ourselves, resorting in a dictatorship and small crimes being punishable by death. We had to go on the run for challenging our 'leaders'. We were still happy. Since then, we've spent our undivided attention on finding another, more civilised colony. If there is one.
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