David (Owen Beckman) has a dry sarcastic wit that enables him to write for anarchist publications and to bore his audience with truism while speaking in a monotone. The scene takes place in the near future. A section of Los Angeles is fenced off and locked down after dark as a way of preventing crime into the outer communities. This New LA is where David has chosen to live and write. The governor of California is named Kane (Kathy Christopherson) sounds like Cain, and is the face of this new lock down. This is sold to the people as being good, so they can rebuild this inner city community, all the while ignoring it.
David is recruited by a group of people who are anarchists, but consider themselves Nationist, and don't want to be called anarchists apparently a tribute to Orwell. They want David to write for them so they can make the struggling people of New LA believe they are in reality prisoners, something they apparently can't do for themselves.
I found Davids writings to be tiresome. One example is when he quotes Poe, "Dream within a dream" and then attempts to make something technical of a poetic concept by saying, "What if you don't sleep? A flashback within a flashback?" One can look at this two ways. This is either poor script writing, or good script writing as an attempt to establish David's character. Either way it was tiresome to listen to these observations droned through out the film as a substitution for using a well developed plot to establish theme. The plot was twisty as we never knew what side David was on as he played on both sides, seemingly never committing to either one. So yes, the plot was clever as a focus on David and might have been a better film had it left off the commentary of society having to chose stability or privacy without thinking we can have both.
Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.
David is recruited by a group of people who are anarchists, but consider themselves Nationist, and don't want to be called anarchists apparently a tribute to Orwell. They want David to write for them so they can make the struggling people of New LA believe they are in reality prisoners, something they apparently can't do for themselves.
I found Davids writings to be tiresome. One example is when he quotes Poe, "Dream within a dream" and then attempts to make something technical of a poetic concept by saying, "What if you don't sleep? A flashback within a flashback?" One can look at this two ways. This is either poor script writing, or good script writing as an attempt to establish David's character. Either way it was tiresome to listen to these observations droned through out the film as a substitution for using a well developed plot to establish theme. The plot was twisty as we never knew what side David was on as he played on both sides, seemingly never committing to either one. So yes, the plot was clever as a focus on David and might have been a better film had it left off the commentary of society having to chose stability or privacy without thinking we can have both.
Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.