Things To Come was a pretty intense film, it was like riding a strange roller coaster of power/science/technology struggle. Entertaining for multiple reasons one of those being the way the actors delivered their lines. I noticed they were really loud, they were loud talking at each other and putting emphasis on certain words.
It started out in Everytown (clever, maybe?) as being this real nice stereotypical American town with people all running about buying things for Christmas. There are other people with signs and flyers all saying things like WAR IS UPON US! The main group of people are all cozy in their homes listening to radio and talking about whether or not war is going to happen when all of a sudden, war happens. Everything is destroyed and the special effects were pretty good for this time period. Buildings were being blown up and people were being smashed, even a little boy was among the rubble. The heroic Cabal escapes all of this because he is a pilot and flew out of there to fight in the war. Everytown is destroyed and so is technology and resources. They are in the processes of rebuilding life as they know it. They have a terrible chief that is more focused on drinking and looking fabulous than the lives of the townspeople and their future. In swoops Cabal on a fancy futuristic plane, who gets put into a cell eventually because new things are too dangerous to the "powerful chief". However his "lady friend" actually knows that Cabal has some good intentions and that Everytown needs a face lift. Just like Cabal had warned, his people from the fancy flying area come to Everytown to rescue Cabal and "clean up" Everytown. The people of Everytown are forced to shoot at the new comers which lands them into some more trouble but really for the better. The people get gassed and all pass out, except the chief who dies. The town benefits greatly because they rebuild it into something way better than before, all because of Cabal. Years go by and the town is mostly underground and technology has increased. The next journey is to the moon, and who better to go than Cabals decent! His son's daughter is young and fit, as is old Cabals buddys son's son. An artist decides he thinks this progress is not good so he riles up the troops of his city with a speech that creates a mass crowd to chase down the young fit pair who are going to circle the moon for all of mankinds progress. Right at the right moment the space gun shoots out the little bullet space craft into space! The crowd goes away and the movie ends with Cabal and his friend talking about progress or nothing, this or that!
The movie's story to me was about the fear of technology and what "progress" is. Loud talking put aside the movies special effects were probably the best part of the whole film. The plot was a little too roller coastery for me and long. The outfits were also a really fun part of the movie, functionality must have just been thrown out the window.
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