• Skua@kbin.social
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      Not to mention that at no point is anything about the society depicted as being somewhere actually good to live. The movie ends with defectors from decadence killing the god-king and presumably overturning the order he built, and it’s framed positively

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
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      Bingo, and if anything given the weather it’s a post nuclear winter potentially rebounding climate.

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      Going to have to go back and watch it but I thought it was that gas ran out so society crumbled due to scarcity.

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        It started like that, but then there was a nuclear war. That’s why there was the Atomic Cafe in Bartertown. It was a reference to a documentary about nuclear war information films of the 1950s.