In a way this film is dated by the circumstances of the time it was made, namely the fear of nuclear war. Even so, it's still manages to be an effective meditation on humanity and death and the disjointed narrative structure works well. While the whole is dated, the individual vignettes used to convey the film's message are still as relevant as they would have been back then, which makes it possible to still be drawn into the film and feel its message while recontextualizing it to modern times.