Review of A Boy and His Dog (1975) by Carl W — 17 May 2008
Inspired by the hopeless sense of doom engendered by Mutually Assured Destruction, this has a rather sparse take on aesthetics and leans heavily on sixties sensibilities. Considering this was four years later than A Clockwork Orange, it's surprisingly empty, really. As post-apocolyptic dystopian sci-fi goes, y'can do a lot better than this. Probably influenced things like Mad Max. The "comic surprise" ending is pretty lame, the characters pretty wooden - I think the script is probably more to blame than the cast.
'Course, it might just be a metaphor for "civilised society" as we know it.
This review of A Boy and His Dog (1975) was written by Carl W on 17 May 2008.
A Boy and His Dog has generally received positive reviews.
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