A boy and his dog
27 February 2014
Response Paper #1
A Boy and His Dog
“A Boy and His Dog” is a 1975 Sci-Fi film starring Don Johnson, who plays the main character, Vic. Blood, a dog who he can communicate with telepathically, joins him on his search for females and food. The year is 2024, and most of the United States has been destroyed by the five day Nuclear War. They are in Arizona, where many people are out battling for food and looking for the civilization that is rumored to exist down below the desert wasteland. The people who live in the underground society are known as “downunders”. While neither Vic nor Blood want to find this society, Blood wants to find the “promised land”, where many above-ground utopias exist, whereas Vic wants to stay and continue to use Blood to sniff out women for him. On their quest to find the Promised Land, they encounter many obstacles such as murders and thieves. Along the way, Vic meets a girl, Quilla, who tries to convince Vic to leave the dystopia and come down under with her. Even though Blood suspects that it is a trap, they hunt her down and come across the small steel door that leads to down under. Vic has to leave Blood behind in order to go into the underground society, which he later finds out is called Topeka. After getting captured by several clown-faced strangers (they paint their faces to distinguish themselves from people above ground), Vic soon realizes Topeka may not be a utopia after all. The Nuclear War destroyed virtually everything in Arizona, besides canned food that is scattered throughout the desert, and a handful of human beings. The way many of the people Vic comes across are portrayed as evil, selfish, violent individuals who are all after the same things: food and women. “A Boy and His Dog” does an exceptionally well job at hitting key factors of a dystopia. The lack of human life is one of the main problems, as well as no stable government. At one point in the film, there is a man who is being pulled along in
Response Paper #1
A Boy and His Dog
“A Boy and His Dog” is a 1975 Sci-Fi film starring Don Johnson, who plays the main character, Vic. Blood, a dog who he can communicate with telepathically, joins him on his search for females and food. The year is 2024, and most of the United States has been destroyed by the five day Nuclear War. They are in Arizona, where many people are out battling for food and looking for the civilization that is rumored to exist down below the desert wasteland. The people who live in the underground society are known as “downunders”. While neither Vic nor Blood want to find this society, Blood wants to find the “promised land”, where many above-ground utopias exist, whereas Vic wants to stay and continue to use Blood to sniff out women for him. On their quest to find the Promised Land, they encounter many obstacles such as murders and thieves. Along the way, Vic meets a girl, Quilla, who tries to convince Vic to leave the dystopia and come down under with her. Even though Blood suspects that it is a trap, they hunt her down and come across the small steel door that leads to down under. Vic has to leave Blood behind in order to go into the underground society, which he later finds out is called Topeka. After getting captured by several clown-faced strangers (they paint their faces to distinguish themselves from people above ground), Vic soon realizes Topeka may not be a utopia after all. The Nuclear War destroyed virtually everything in Arizona, besides canned food that is scattered throughout the desert, and a handful of human beings. The way many of the people Vic comes across are portrayed as evil, selfish, violent individuals who are all after the same things: food and women. “A Boy and His Dog” does an exceptionally well job at hitting key factors of a dystopia. The lack of human life is one of the main problems, as well as no stable government. At one point in the film, there is a man who is being pulled along in