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Aging Post Apocalyptic

I'm putting Logan's Run here, more because of the soundtrack than because of the movie. The movie's pretty excellent in a sort of campy, seventies fashion but I think the soundtrack's the element of the movie that's really the strongest.

In the film we're given a future society in which the ages of the inhabitants are limited to thirty years. At 3o... you're "put to sleep". Michael York decides that there's something wrong with this and escapes, along with Jenny Agutter, from the city, he lives in, so as to avoid his sentence. The city's outlying areas are safe, even if desolate and horribly run down. No one knows this seeing as everyone's been afraid to leave for centuries. York discovers a whole new world outside the city gates. The effects in this film are pretty good. The story actually does get interesting at several points and the world presented to us is great fun to explore. Twenty years from now it will probably seem as alien as even the strangest of alien worlds and it's pretty bizarre even in contrast to today. It's a classic anyway and well worth seeing.

Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack is a masterpiece of electronic composition. It's futuristic and strange and simply wonderful. You can buy the soundtrack separately. It is a classic of the electronic genre. If that sort of thing interests you I recommend it highly. There are several alternate versions online if you feel like looking around for it.