Review of A Boy and His Dog (1975) by Jack R — 04 Oct 2007
This movie has been criticized for being one of the most chauvanistic piles of crap in recent memory. I beg to differ. While the "protagonist" is quite boorish, he's no more so than the lead of "A Clockwork Orange," and at least in this case, it's more obviously mitigated by the extreme environment.
Them's the facts, so to say. It's a situational movie for the first third or so, and the dog makes a more lovable character... but then we're dragged underneath the obvious, into the preposterous soylent eden created by the religious right: the down-under Topeka mere miles from old Phoenix, AZ.
This is truly the point where the movie zooms off to the horizon of ridiculous fururism, but never without reminding us of how ugly and bureaucratic real modern-day people can be. Cannibalism, by comparison, seems but a trivial tresspass.
This review of A Boy and His Dog (1975) was written by Jack R on 04 Oct 2007.
A Boy and His Dog has generally received positive reviews.
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