Just stumbled into this Orson Welles documentary based on Alvin Toffler's book on YouTube. It depicts Welles going to various places as he tells us of various things that will happen in a tone meant to think seriously about if it's all worth it. The part of the scientist telling of people changing colors and then seeing them walking with faces painted blue and red was perhaps one of the stranger segments of the film. What wasn't so strange was hearing some of the Moog-like score or even the Easy Listening songs that sound like some reject Carpenters material. Fascinating to watch two men get wed even though gay marriage couldn't be made legal at the time and of a man taking a pill and then "shocking" himself and then his wife (while in bed) out of a depression. The fact that a rat also gets it is a bit much for my tastes. Then we also get glimpses of protesting, young adults living together in groups, and Welles' head splitting into more spaces on the screen in a segment on cloning. Toffler himself appears near the end to tell how we must control technology to the point we can handle it. Lots of other stuff I could mention but if what I said whetted your curiosity, then Future Shock, like I said, is on YouTube...
Review of Future Shock
Future Shock
(1972)
Future Shock was something featuring Orson Welles I stumbled into on YouTube...
1 September 2009