Gas-s-s-s! (1970)
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Gas-s-s-s! (1970)
Roger Corman aimed at the youth market with a film like this, following up on psychedelic ventures such as The Trip (67). This was very different from his The Day the World Ended (55). It's almost plotless, but what there is postulates a release of some gas in the Alaska area which spreads to the rest of the world to kill anyone over 25 years old (see also Wild in the Streets-1968, which makes a natural double feature). The film follows a small group of hippies who make their way across America, encountering the various new factions which have cropped up.
This is all social and/or political commentary, usually presented as a farce. There are no realistic aspects of the human condition which we can actually relate to, such as young people dealing with their parents' deaths; it's all more in abstract terms. The core theme is probably a question of whether the new young society will simply replicate (and therefore be as bad as) the previous society. Some of this is politically incorrect and probably couldn't be done today, such as depicting rape as a joke (nothing is shown; the victim escapes the brand of being a victim by simply accepting and enjoying the act, while the 3 perps are shown to be unsatisfied and lethargic afterwards).
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