Set in 1999, on the eve of Y2K, we follow former cop turned black market tech dealer, Lenny Nero. Civilization is coming apart at the seams, all while a strange device called “The Squid” circulates the city streets: a machine which allows its wearer to relive the memories and feelings of nearly anyone. Lenny begrudgingly stumbles into a conspiracy involving the police force, the music industry, and the city’s seediest elements. This millennial, dystopian thriller puts on full display the specter of social rot and discord, corruption and incompetence in high places, and a public engrossed in and addicted to immersive technology. Prophetic and jarring, Strange Days paints a bleak picture of the 21st century’s looming technological society. Can society survive tensions that have been brewing for generations? Are human beings equipped to deal with the implications of their creations? Is technology a progressive force, which will carry us out of our primitive lives and into a prosperous future? Or will it only serve to exacerbate our most abominable traits and enslave us to our basest urges? Through all its intrigue and adventure, this film ultimately forces the viewer to ask that all important question, “What does it mean to be human?” Director: Kathryn Bigelow Writers: James Cameron & Jay Cocks Stars: • Ralph Fiennes as “Lenny Nero” • Angela Bassett as “Lornette ‘Mace’ Mason” • Juliette Lewis as “Faith Justin” • Tom Sizemore as “Max Peltier” • Michael Wincott as “Philo Gant” Misc.: Strange Days (1995): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/ “Kathryn Bigelow” (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Bigelow The Story of Nowhere Podcast #20: “The Domesday Device”: https://storyofnowhere.com/domesday/ “Hollywood & The Military: A Special Relationship” – Big Picture Film Club: https://bigpicturefilmclub.com/hollywood-military-special-relationship/ “How Hollywood Films Get the US Military as a Co-Star” – Military.com: https://www.military.com/off- duty/how-hollywood-films-get-us-military-co-star.html

In today's episode, Nicky P and Danny review Children Of Men and discuss the origin of Eugenics as well as collapse economics. What's To Review In Children Of Men? Global civilization has fallen. Britain alone hangs on by a thread. Migrants and refugees are flooding into a nation that can’t sustain them. The government, struggling to maintain order, exerts whatever power it has with as much force as it can as the bombs of desperate terrorists explode in the streets and as more and more people succumb to misery. This vision of England in the year 2027 is bleak indeed, for no baby has been born on Earth for eighteen long years. Suddenly, without explanation, people just stopped being able to reproduce. There are no more children. There is just a world of adults—sullen, hopeless adults—with no future to fight for and no reason to live. Theo Faron, a jaded former activist turned low-level government bureaucrat, is introduced by his estranged wife to Kee, a poor refugee seeking passage through England. Theo’s wife is killed in an ambush, leaving Kee in his reluctant hands. Kee reveals to the cynical Theo that she is pregnant; she is the first person to be pregnant in nearly two decades. Discovering that his wife’s ambitious comrades were responsible for her death and that they planned to use Kee’s baby as a political tool, Theo and Kee flee their wicked designs and set out to get Kee to the mysterious Human Project, a much-fabled band of scientists working to cure humanity’s infertility. Fear And Self-Loathing In A Children Of Men Review In this episode of The Road to Hell, Nicky and Danny explore the dismal subject of human infertility and how, as Children of Men aptly displays, a world without children is not worth living in. Nonetheless, there are those in power here in the real world who would like to limit human reproduction, supposedly in order to “save the planet.” However, the control of human breeding has always been a key element in political Utopianism throughout history. For an introduction to eugenics in the United States and much more, tune into this episode of The Road to Hell film review podcast! Closing Sentence Today's episode was certainly a doozy. We covered the failing modern economic model when applied to the natural plateauing of human population growth. We also covered the origins of the Eugenics movement as well as its connections to the current antihuman population movement. It sounds impossible not to be more informed than you were beforehand. Director - Alfonso Cuarón Writers - Alfonso Cuarón - Timothy J. Sexton - David Arata - Mark Fergus - Hawk Ostby Starring - Clive Owen as “Theo Faron” - Clare-Hope Ashitey as “Kee” - Michael Caine as “Jasper Palmer” - Chiwetel Ejiofor as “Luke” - Julianne Moore as “Julian Taylor” Children Of Men Review Resources & Extra Media - Children of Men (2006): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/ - War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race – Edwin Black: https://edwinblack.com/war-against-the-weak - “The Scientific Racism of Eugenics and Social Darwinism” – Peace Revolution Podcast #64: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/peacerevolution/episodes/2012-10-05T12_01_59-07_00 - UNESCO: Its Purpose and its Philosophy – Julian Huxley: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000068197 - Excerpt from pg. 19: “At the moment, it is probable that the indirect effect of civilisation is dysgenic instead of eugenic; and in any case it seems likely that the dead weight of genetic stupidity, physical weakness, mental instability, and disease-proneness, which already exist in the human species, will prove too great a burden for real progress to be achieved. Thus even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for Unesco to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” - “Forced Sterilizations are Still Legal in 31 States, New Report Shows” – TruthOut: https://truthout.org/articles/forced-sterilizations-are-still-legal-in-31-states-new-report-shows/ - “How & Why Big Oil Conquered the World” – The Corbett Report: https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/ - “Meet Paul Ehrlich, Pseudoscience Charlatan” – The Corbett Report: https://www.corbettreport.com/ehrlich/ Shill Want to learn more about the Utopian Project throughout history or have an interest in esoterica & the classics? Check out Danny's work @ Story Of Nowhere or the Story Of Nowhere Library. Need help connecting with your audience for your business or creative endeavor? Check out Nicky P @ Iron Age Marketing or Nicky P Copywriter.