I don't care what era anyone is from, but if mature adults were to discover that it would be people 25 and younger running the world and they had to deal with it as well as being a minority if they manage to survive the deaths of people their own age (26 and above!), something tells me that they would face death Wish happiness rather than live to deal with it. This cult film is one of many dozen anti-establishment films of the late 1960's and early 70's with youth culture taking over simply because a mysterious gas accidentally released by the military has killed anybody over the age of 25 you get to see a few elderly people's courses on the street, but for the most part, it's just the young and the restless and rebels without any cause. That's basically all there is as plot because it's only a series of events that occur when a group of survivors leave Dallas and end up in New Mexico where they are confronted by the varying anti-establishment leaders who have very different ideas of how things will be run.
Among the cast are Bud Court of Harold and Maude, future TV sitcom star Cindy Williams, established Broadway veteran Ben Vereen and a young Talia Shire several years before "The Godfather". Their talent is not in question but they have not been giving discipline direction or a real strip to work from, so they really do not get to established fully developed characters. When the leaders of these varying anti-establishment groups try to speak in mature ways, they all just seem absurd. In fact, there are more moments of just absurdity than reality, and the only way to get through this is to look at it from an absurdist angle.
Of course this was made by filmmakers far older than 25 so the script doesn't always make you think that you were talking with people older than these characters parents. A scene with a group of young natives returning the unwanted elements of what the government gave them to make a living could have had more of an impact had the young native male been presented more naturally, given subtly offensive gay characteristics that are eyebrow raising. As a part of film history, this is important because it shows the strong feelings of the youth of this time with great hatred against the establishment but ironically forced to create a new establishment that showed that nothing had changed but the date, the average age of the population and especially the decrease in population.
Among the cast are Bud Court of Harold and Maude, future TV sitcom star Cindy Williams, established Broadway veteran Ben Vereen and a young Talia Shire several years before "The Godfather". Their talent is not in question but they have not been giving discipline direction or a real strip to work from, so they really do not get to established fully developed characters. When the leaders of these varying anti-establishment groups try to speak in mature ways, they all just seem absurd. In fact, there are more moments of just absurdity than reality, and the only way to get through this is to look at it from an absurdist angle.
Of course this was made by filmmakers far older than 25 so the script doesn't always make you think that you were talking with people older than these characters parents. A scene with a group of young natives returning the unwanted elements of what the government gave them to make a living could have had more of an impact had the young native male been presented more naturally, given subtly offensive gay characteristics that are eyebrow raising. As a part of film history, this is important because it shows the strong feelings of the youth of this time with great hatred against the establishment but ironically forced to create a new establishment that showed that nothing had changed but the date, the average age of the population and especially the decrease in population.