John and Eugene take a look at what may be the last of Hollywood’s Pre-Star Wars Sci-Fi spectacles. It all changes after this one, folks.
Synopsis
The Domed City is a closed- oasis in a world destroyed by war. Logan 5 is one of the elite Sandmen who enforce the ultimate law of the Domed City: That life must end on your 30th birthday unless you are renewed in the ritual of Carrousel. All citizens are a colored Life Clock embedded in their hands, showing their age.
Some who refuse to accept Carrousel become Runners, attempting to escape. The Sandmen make sure they fail.
In a chance encounter with a Runner, Logan collects a strange medallion from the Runner, shaped like an Ankh. He later sees that same symbol on a beautiful young woman named Jessica 6, who doesn’t want to have sex with him. Imagine that.
Reporting the next day, the computer that controls the city takes an interest in the Ankh. It reveals to Logan that over 1000 Runners are unaccounted for, that no one actually “renews,” and that Ankh is tied to a place called “Sanctuary,” the destination of the Runners.
Logan is assigned to go undercover and find Sanctuary without the help of his fellow Sandmen. To add a little verisimilitude to Logan’s assignment, the computer takes four years from Logan’s life. His Life Clock is now Red and blinking, signifying that he is on Last Day.
Logan seeks out Jessica, and, despite her doubts, he finally convinces her that he really is a Runner. Her friends aren’t so easily convinced and try to have him killed.
Meanwhile, Logan’s best friend and partner, Francis 7, has witnessed some of the things Logan has done, including letting a Runner go free. He feels betrayed but covers for his friend, confronting him.
Logan and Jessica escape from him, finally convincing Jessica’s friends to let them leave the dome through secret passages.
Logan, however, is still trying to be a Sandman and reports their location, bringing a squad of Sandman to raid their hideout. When Jessica is almost killed, Logan saves her and throws in his lot with her, escaping into the tunnels.
Frances follows them, but they get away from him in a flood.
They enter an ice cave and encounter the cybernetic organism named Box. His faulty programming is to preserve fish, plankton, sea greens, and protein from the sea in ice storage, but when that stopped coming, and the Runners started coming, he began freezing them instead.
Logan destroys Box and his cave. Logan and Jessica are likely the very first to make it outside the dome.
It is a wilderness, but not a completely desolate one. Eventually, they come upon the ruins of Washington DC, where they meet an old man living alone with his cats. They have never seen old before, and he teaches them about how he was raised by his parents.
Francis finds them and, in a struggle to the death, Logan must kill his friend.
With little outside, Logan decides he must try to go back to the Domed City and expose the lie of Carrousel. They convince the Old Man to accompany them to show everyone what “old” looks like.
Inside, Logan fails to convince the crowds that are gathering for Carrousel, and they are taken prisoner by the Sandmen.
Under mind probe to the computer, Logan explains that there is no Sanctuary and that the Runners didn’t escape. The computer doesn’t want to hear that and explodes.
A fight breaks out, more computers are destroyed, and the Domed City basically self-destructs, as computer-controlled domed cities are want to do.
The pampered and ill-prepared population of the city struggles forth into the outside to begin a new chapter in unpredictable death.
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