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Title: Logan's Run (1976)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Michael York | ... | Logan | |
| Richard Jordan | ... | Francis | |
| Jenny Agutter | ... | Jessica | |
| Roscoe Lee Browne | ... | Box | |
| Farrah Fawcett | ... | Holly (as Farrah Fawcett-Majors) | |
| Michael Anderson Jr. | ... | Doc | |
| Peter Ustinov | ... | Old Man | |
| Randolph Roberts | ... | 2nd Sanctuary Man | |
| Lara Lindsay | ... | The Woman Runner | |
| Gary Morgan | ... | Billy | |
| Michelle Stacy | ... | Mary 2 | |
| Laura Hippe | ... | Woman Customer | |
| David Westberg | ... | Sandman | |
| Camilla Carr | ... | Sanctuary Woman | |
| Greg Lewis | ... | Cub (as Gregg Lewis) | |
It's 2274, and on the surface, it all seems to be an idyllic society. Living in a city within an enclosed dome, there is little or no work for humans to perform, and inhabitants are free to pursue all of the pleasures of life. There is one catch however: your life is limited and when you reach thirty, it is terminated in a quasi-religious ceremony known as "carrousel". Some, known as "runners", try to escape their fate when the time comes, and it's the job of Sandmen to track them down and kill them. Logan (Michael York) is such a man, and with several years before his own termination date, thinks nothing of the job he does. Soon after meeting a young woman, Jessica-6 (Jenny Agutter), he is ordered to become a runner and infiltrate a community outside the dome known as "Sanctuary" and to destroy it. Pursued by his friend Francis (Richard Jordan), also a Sandman, Logan and Jessica find their way to the outside. There, they discover a beautiful, virtually uninhabited world. Logan ... Written by garykmcd
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Agree with the other reviewer who cites Outland, Zardoz, Silent Running etc as good recommendations that are set in similar dystopias. I haven't seen many of these, but hopefully might check them all out eventually. However, from my own limited film experience, I can say I believe with some certainty that two more modern films of the same genre that were both influenced quite a bit by this one are 'In Time' (2011) starring Justin Timberlake and 'The Island' (2005) starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson; all three are dystopian; but I preferred the latter two films. Which isn't to say Logan's Run isn't good for its day; in many ways it's the precursor for those other two films, and I feel they both borrowed quite heavily off this original in their own ways. To sum the whole premise up very quickly; they live in an amoral and arbitrary world where no-one lives beyond 30 years of age and life is devoid of meaning. There is no innovation, no competitive spirit, no will to succeed, no work ethic. In many ways then, a living hell for people like myself and I imagine many others. What ostensibly can be the purpose of life, if not to make a contribution to the world, by whatever means possible, be that progeny, gainful employment, productive labour, the willingness and desire to learn and relay that information to others? I.e. knowledge and wisdom. More than anything though a world in which the value of hard work goes not just unrewarded, but unrealised and unrecognised, for the concept of 'hard work' itself is an alien one. It is a world cut off from nature, whose inhabitants are profoundly ignorant and childish, availing of a strange mixture of a simultaneously archaic and frighteningly advanced technology, who in this universe are completely uneducated and lacking in the knowledge of how to build or understand the machines and technology they use on a daily basis (Apart from the 'plastic surgeon' who doesn't seem to fit the rule of general ignorance and who says he built the surgery machine). There are moments of cheer in the film however; when they thwart the preposterous 'tin man' figure who wishes to freeze them and then encase them in ice for his grotesque and macabre grotto of horrors, as well as more significantly the moment when they breach the ice cave and enter into the glorious and magnificent late afternoon sunshine. This is very reminiscent of a tale told about young Buddhist monks training to be lamas in the Himalayas, (whether it is just apocryphal or actually real, I have no idea), but it goes like this; they are separated from their parents (at least they have them, unlike Logan's dystopia world - again, itself reminiscent of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - brilliant book by the way, must read it if you haven't done so already) when they are just a few weeks or months old, or perhaps once they are fully weaned; then they are kept away from ever observing the Sun directly, apparently until they are seven years old, at which point they are awoken early one morning, to go outside and see the sun rising on a fine day, which must be an incredible experience, even the more powerful given that they've never experienced it before. So yes, there is a scene that echoes that in the film; obviously this fool's paradise chamber of a world they live in is situated somewhere near Washington DC in modern day America, and I believe the eccentric but likable cat-man is in the Library of Congress or somewhere akin, and they pass the Abraham Lincoln Memorial on their way to meeting him. If nothing else, this film is thought provoking and so I believe 7/10 is justified, given that the film starts off by engendering a very great level of despair for society, but redeems itself later on, when the two escapees are able to experience true nature for the first time, and eventually ends triumphantly with the overthrow and downfall of the established but pointless order.