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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
A ramshackle post-apocalyptic road movie with a deadpan odd-couple pairing, handmade strangeness, and comic-book violence—similarly more interested in bizarre attitude than sober realism.
02
Why this pick
Its sleazy, knowingly ridiculous fertility-driven dystopia shares the film’s irreverent treatment of post-collapse sexual politics and its affection for grubby exploitation-movie absurdity.
03
Why this pick
For a much harsher, less comic variation, this follows an uneasy male partnership through an economically ruined Australian outback, with the same stripped-down survival logic and hostile landscape.
04
Why this pick
Its punk-industrial future, scavenged technology, and grotesque black humor channel a similarly nasty, independent-minded vision of civilization’s leftovers.
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Why this pick
This is a more affectionate and colorful wasteland romp, but its homemade mayhem, outsider companionship, and gleeful B-movie excess preserve the anarchic fun of the original.
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01 / THE STORY
Set in a post-nuclear war Earth in the year 2024, the main character, Vic (Don Johnson) is an 18-year-old boy, born in and scavenging throughout the wasteland of the former southwestern United States. Vic is most concerned with food and sex; having lost both of his parents, he has no formal education and does not understand ethics or morality. He is accompanied by a well-read, Misanthropy, telepathic dog named Blood who helps him locate women in return for food. Blood cannot forage for himself due to the same genetic engineering that granted him telepathy. The two steal for a living, evading bands of marauders, berserk androids, and mutants. Blood and Vic have an occasionally antagonistic relationship (Blood frequently annoys Vic by calling him "Albert" for reasons never made clear in the movie, but rather in an interview later on with Harlan Ellison, where he says “When he [Blood] calls him ‘Al’ or ‘Albert,’ he is referring to the Albert Payson Terhune dog stories, whereas a traditional boy and his dog relationship is turned upside down in this movie.”), though they realize that they need each other. Blood wishes to find the legendary promised land of "Over the Hill" where aboveground utopias are said to exist, though Vic believes that they must make the best of what they have.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Lou Craddock
Mez Smith
Fellini
Gery
Ken
Vic
Quilla June Holmes
Blood (Voice)
