A Boy and his Dog was
Released In 1975 based on a short Novel By Harlan Ellison, starring Don
Johnson As Vic(Albert) and His Dog Blood (obviously) voiced by Tim McIntire the
story begins as most post apocalyptic movies do with a opening scroll some
history as to how the world has ended up the way that it is. The year is apparently
2024 and massive world war caused the world to go to hell in a hand-basket
you know like usual.
With that we are thrown into Vic and Blood
having a conversation as they search for food, water and females, you know the
necessities in life. But wait, Vic and the dog are having a conversation? What?
You find that Vic and Blood have a telepathic link to one another and
apparently both of them are smart asses. As they search the waste Blood gives
us more Exposition as to how the world ended up this way. He explains that
there was a world war III and then a world war IV.
World war 4 apparently only lasted 5 days
before complete nuclear fallout took place and now the world is a barren
wasteland with roving packs of raiders and mutants stretching all across the
land. Sound familiar? Other than obviously every other post apocalyptic
movie out there several of these key elements found their way into Fallout. But
where was I? Oh yes after a while they find a group of scavengers digging
up food in the desert.
Vic decides to steal the bag of food he
sees the head of the band set on the ground. And boy does he steal
it subtly, if by subtly I mean he runs 2 block of desert over
with blatant disregard for safety grabs the food hits a small child over
the head with the bag of cans and firing his pistol on the fly as
the scavengers fire at him. After he escapes the raiders blood and he
gorge themselves and decide because they have so much Food they can afford to
go to a nearby camp.
The nearby camp they go to catch a movie which
appears to be c-grade porn which leads me to believe that not even a nuclear
war can stop people looking at porn. While in the movie theater blood smell a
woman which from what I can gather up to this point don't tend to last long in
this world because they get found raped and murdered by the roving bands. After
blood and Vic have an argument over popcorn (yes really) blood points out the
female and they track her to a nearby ruin of lockers and boiler rooms. When we
get to the bombed out locker boiler room emporium were treated to a scene of
Vic about to rape a woman. OUR HERO!!
Obviously blood was not the only
person at the camp to spot the woman. When blood says there is upwards of 15
raiders at the entrance shootout in sues. in order to escape what
would be certain death the pretend to be Screamer's yes they are called
screamers we get a vague explanation for what they are and that is
they are mutants that emit radiation and glow green and yes apparently they
constantly scream. Then we are treated to a multiple sex seen in a boiler. We
come to find that the girl is from "down under" and Blood doesn't
trust her at all. Arguments in-sue when Vic wants to take the girl with
them. When Vic goes to try and get her from the boiler room the girl knocks Vic
out and leaves a key card to get into the Vault....... I mean “down Under"
for Vic.
Vic wants to go after
the girl but blood tries to convince him out of it. Now real spoilers here so are
warned. Vic goes "down under" and finds that society down there
because they've been down there so long every so often needs new blood in their
gene pool to keep them going and Vic was a perfect specimen. Vic believes
that he will get to sleep with all the women down there but of course it’s
sadly not that way. He is strapped to a table and pumped by a machine like he
was cattle. The girl he was hunting for is found out to be a plant to get Vic down
there with the promise of a spot on the board; the board is the small group of
people that control every aspect of life "down Under". I have
to address this, seriously? Down under? There are far too many
sexual jokes and Disney jokes I could make with that name. Anyways. Girl
doesn't get put on the board she gets pissed she frees Vic asking him to kill
the current board.
Vic says Fuck this I don't give a shit about your down under I’m
heading back to Blood cause this shit is cray cray. Long story short the girl
didn't have particularly good taste. The end.
To be honest for the
time and the subject matter I believe this is a really good movie it has good
atmosphere the characters are fairly well developed and you feel involved in
the story, you care what happens to the characters which in
post apocalyptic movie is kind of a hard thing to pull off. Even with
the awkward almost rape in the middle they found a way to make the
character likable. The dialogue between Blood and Vic honestly make
this movie. When Blood and Vic are separated you really feel the loss and
distance between the way the world is and the way the Down under colony lives
but there is until the overlaying truth that when things go to hell you really
have to be in it for yourself. I suggest this movie
whole heartily. I give this movie 8 out of 10.
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