Logan's Run

             Michael York stars as the title character in this ground breaking sci-fi underground hit. Logan is a sandman in the City. People have lived in the City, a domed wonderland, for over 2000 years, not knowing anything of the outside. All people are born with ID crystals which tell their age. Everyone in this wonederland pursues hedonistic pleasure until age 30, when they are summarily executed for the purpose of “rebirth” by the fantastical ceremony known only as “Carousel”.

            Sandmen are feared and honored, for it is their job to stop anyone who doesn’t participate in Carousel. They Terminate Runners. Logan is great at his job, and loves the pleasure lifestyle, and he’s only 26. But, when he destroys a runner and finds an ancient symbol on his body, the central computer hatches a plan to locate all the unaccounted Runners. Logan will be aged, and made to appear as a runner. His purpose is to infiltrate the little known underground, named “Sanctuary”. Sanctuary is believed to have harbored and exported over 1000 runners.

            Logan, as well as a girl he falls in love with, is about to make a daring escape, and seek to go all the way to the outside. In very symbolic cinematography and an intricate world, this movie is really quite a lot of fun to see. It is also groundbreaking in it’s effects, being the first film to use “Laser Holography” later made popular in the Star Wars Series.

            While it isn’t much to look at, the movie is definitely worth watching, and has a lot of cool ideas about what true freedom is, and what it means to be human, and what an American is. And it’s got that idealistic feel to it, very THX-1138 in it’s outcome. A 2.