Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:04 pm
It's the year 2022, and America is severely overpopulated.
The movie begins with the credits showing a montage of images from the early 1900's, showing groups of people getting bigger and bigger (the groups, not the people) as the years roll by, as well as garbage stacking up higher and higher. Typical 70's concerns... the even mention the "Greenhouse Effect" once or twice. The credits end with the text:
Year:2022
Place:New York City
Population:40 million
Chuck Heston plays "Thorne," a police detective who has a caseload of 100 new murders a day. He is one of the lucky half of the population who has a job, and therefore an apartment... 20 million are homeless. If he screws up, or refuses the daily double shifts of work, there are 20MM people waiting for his job.
One night a very wealthy man is murdered, and one thing leads to another, and Thorne ends up on a path to uncover a secret that will turn their "civilization" upside down.
There are some interesting concepts in this movie... there's a girl with the job title of "furniture" that is attached to an apartment... if she wants a place to live, then she becomes a slave to whomever lives in the apartment.
Euthenasia clinics.
"The countryside" being off limits, as it is all owned by the food production corporation.
Daily food ration riots... with people being scooped up with front-end loaders when they dont disperse.
Worth watching.
The movie begins with the credits showing a montage of images from the early 1900's, showing groups of people getting bigger and bigger (the groups, not the people) as the years roll by, as well as garbage stacking up higher and higher. Typical 70's concerns... the even mention the "Greenhouse Effect" once or twice. The credits end with the text:
Year:2022
Place:New York City
Population:40 million
Chuck Heston plays "Thorne," a police detective who has a caseload of 100 new murders a day. He is one of the lucky half of the population who has a job, and therefore an apartment... 20 million are homeless. If he screws up, or refuses the daily double shifts of work, there are 20MM people waiting for his job.
One night a very wealthy man is murdered, and one thing leads to another, and Thorne ends up on a path to uncover a secret that will turn their "civilization" upside down.
There are some interesting concepts in this movie... there's a girl with the job title of "furniture" that is attached to an apartment... if she wants a place to live, then she becomes a slave to whomever lives in the apartment.
Euthenasia clinics.
"The countryside" being off limits, as it is all owned by the food production corporation.
Daily food ration riots... with people being scooped up with front-end loaders when they dont disperse.
Worth watching.