Film Summary CXXXI (Things to Come)

It's Christmas Eve 1940 the threat of War looms over all the world. John Cabal wonders if such a thing can ever happen, many of his friends and family disregard the events as purely speculative, they sit close to their Christmas tree and discuss the advancements in children's toys, how much more complex they are as compared to what they were 70 years ago.

The sounds of planes and cannons grows louder, radios proclaims that a war has begun. All the world is involved with thousands of airplanes and gas weapons. and it lingers on, not for a mer 5 or 6 years but 30!

Now it's the nineteen-seventies and man has forgotten why he has fought a war, all the government's, all of the organization are gone. Most of mankind no longer exists. It's a dark age with only a few guns lift to fight with.

You'll find no fascism, communism, republicanism or any other such concept for this world is ruled by Warlords. There is only one other group the ''Wings Over the World'' based out of Basra (City in Iraq)

made up of scientists and Engineers they have no established leaders and no earrings to return to the Old Government. They possess the only good technology in the world and they move throughout the planet reestablishing order wherever they can. it is they that being about future. By the year 2036 humanity has Advanced to a sustainable age with high standards of living and the yearning to begin space travel using a kind of ''space gun''.

They also have in their possession helicopters (this might be the first film to ever feature a helicopter in it seeing as how the first helicopter was invented the same year this movie was made)


It's here that the movie comes full circle as the people of this Modern Age start to debate if they should push mankind more, if they deserve a rest from the technological advancement and should go back to a simpler way of living.

In 100 years civilization has destroyed and recreated itself only too possibly destroy itself again.

"All the universe or nothingness? Which shall it be? ..."

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