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Watched this film for the first time in 30 years. And it got me thinking...
* Who created the dome world, humans or machines?
* Was carousel a way to control the human population? Or was there a more nefarious reason behind the renewal lie?
* Why are there no cats in the dome cities? Or pets of any kind? Seems odd humans would give up pets.
* Whats the point behind the ending? Yes, great the civilians won't be executed at age 30 anymore. But was there a bigger meaning behind the people leaving the domes? Like now they can grow old leading to over population, suffer disease and infections, be hunted by wild animals, fight over land and resources, etc. Is that really the better existence?
Only going by the film itself (which is still one of my favorites), the creators of the dome were probably forgotten over time. Probably long dead, and the main computer took over. The citizens don't even question, it's just life to them. Those who do question...well...
I would assume it was a way to control the population. With the ceremony and the promise of renewal, it was a fun way to get them on board. Why believing exploding in mid air would be a great way to renew is not explained.
Pets would be a drain on resources. They have enough drugs and sex to not need pets. Maybe they died out due to a plague brought back from space. Wait, wrong film...
The ending set up the sequel we never got. But yeah, now they're free to live and grow old. And die of sepsis and whatnot. Marvel Comics started to explore the ramifications of post dome life before the comic was cancelled two issues after the movie adaptation.
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Why Sol, why?!
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Jul 29, 2019 - 10:40 AM
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Now there's a chicken and egg dish for sure. There isn't really a logical evolutionary framework that sets up the world to which we are introduced in LR.
In The Island (a deliberately parallel update of the LR storyline, IMO), there was a rationale for having genetic identical twins (agates) held in permanent isolation/captivity in a morally dubious predicament. You could possibly imagine a perversion of that leading to the Domed city scenario of Logan's run. A whole string of in-between events that leads to an isolated community. At the time of LR, one of the popular tenets of sci-fi was that of post nuclear apocalypse, although how anyone could build something so hi-tech as a fully inclusive artificial environment in a nuclear ravaged landscape which would take any civilisation back to bare bones living if it survived at all, is quite beyond me.
What's interesting about Logan's Run is it set up the environment for the cinema goer with minimal substantiation via dialog, etc, yet the audience would get the basic premise without too much trouble. In fact, the dialog is very limited and stunted which works if you accept it as a pretty dumb flick to begin with. If it said too much, the very loose ground upon which it already clung would have evaporated into thin air. So they gave a Planet Of The Apes reading of the situation where nothing more was assumed to be needed to be said in the language of the movie itself. As for getting out of the domes at the end, I believe it was an Apollo astronaut who said, "Man must explore!" What is an interesting aside from the story is - what would Logan's highly inquisitive nature have come to if he had not met Jessica?
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Why Sol, why?!
With an emoji, yet?
Like someone else said in another thread:
"Why piss on the parade with negative comments?"
The Marshall Ruination
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The city backdrop paining wound up in Star Trek V behind "Admiral Bob." The city itself was really well designed and executed for the most part, but the outside needed to be a larger model.
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