[sperry]

Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey

See, I thought the message was more of a general warning about where society at large is headed, possibly even in the near future. I actually liked that they didn't really get into specifics about the "how" & "why" things had crashed, I think if they had it would have seemed too preachy.

There were some great moments illustrating human nature in it too, like when he brought the mother & baby out of the building during the uprising; just the sight & sound of the upset baby totally stopped the fighting cold for a minute... but once they started walking away all it took was one random shot and the fighting instantly started raging again just like before. People can recognize important things when it's staring them in the face, but our attention spans are short and we forget easily...

But the idea that mankind went sterile is soooo big of a deal, I don't know that I can take any real overall message from the movie about society in general. The whole reason the world went to shit in that movie is because of an event so powerful that anything in there world doesn't map to ours all that easily.

Now if they had tried to make some connection with genetic engineering or something to mankind's infertility, then they might have a case for a "stop GE or else" point, but then it would have been a lame movie.

I much prefer stories like 1984 where you could make a direct extrapolation from current society into the negative utopia and say "yeah, I could see that happening".