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One of the most memorable sci–fi stories
ever made, THINGS TO COME also set a
benchmark for innovative design and
incredible special effects when it was first
made in 1936.
It's Christmas 1940. The people of Everytown find
themselves at war against an enemy who had
been planning such a conflict for years. The
land is devastated by the horrors of aerial
bombardment as the war drags on until 1966.
There follows a period of despair, with feudal
tyrants ruling a downtrodden population also
prey to famine and a fatal plague known as
'The Wandering'. Can the human race rise
above its desperate situation and use science
for the common good?
Whilst much is made of the influence of
METROPOLIS on the sci-fi movie genre, little
credit is given to THINGS TO COME yet this film
depicts the first-ever cinematic vision of a
devastated world, post-war desolation and
utopian futurism. Its political foresight is
remarkable but its production design is just as
astonishing – with its plasma screens, mobile
phones and versions of virtually every product
Apple has launched in the last ten years, this film
prefigures much of today's design aesthetic.
This is the longest version known to exist of the movie and it's been restored to a point that this film has never looked better, even on its original release.
Arthur C. Clarke insisted on Stanley
Kubrick seeing this movie as they began
work on 2001...
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