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Nov 05, 2017StarGladiator rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I liked the basic premise for this movie, although it was somewhat disjointed, but great acting by Britt Robertson! It begins with the last Real exposition for progress, the 1964 World's Fair in New York, a most marvelous and magical event, when the remnants of a progressive arc were still somewhat apparent in America, but would be brutally snuffed out with the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. The future protrayed, from another dimension, is where we should be living today, if not for the coup of 1963, and the unchallenged reign of the plutocracy from from that point onwards. The marvelous futuristic city in this movie appears mostly based upon the work of that great industrial designer, Syd Mead, which dates back to the NY World's Fair of 1964. I was fortunate enough to have visited it, having won a trip for selling the most newspaper subscriptions, and overstayed, hiding in GM's Futurama exhibit, lying to the other engineers there, claiming to be the son of one of the engineers. I was severely chastised and punished when I returned to the Catholic orphanage I was then situated with, but it was well worth the extra days there. The last progress-oriented and real progressive president, of course, was JFK: he laid the important groundwork for the Internet, the Apollo Moon Project, issued debt-free money through the Treasury [instead of debt-based money through the Fed], urged integration of schools and football teams [was the president who coined the term, affirmative action], went after offshored monies of the corporations, supported indepedence for African countries from their former colonial overlords, and many, many other forward actions and behaviors - - very little of which is recognized today, except for all the incremental progress proceeding from that! Ergo, a bittersweet movie . . .