Expedition into the future
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Expedition into the future |
| Original title | Idaho transfer |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Fonda |
| script | Thomas Matthiesen |
| production |
William Hayward Anthony Mazzola |
| music | Bruce Langhorne |
| camera | William Sweikart |
| cut | Chuck McClelland |
| occupation | |
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Expedition into the future (original title: Idaho Transfer ) is the title of a melodramatic science fiction film by the American film director and actor Peter Fonda . In the dystopian film from 1973, a dark vision for the future of mankind on their home planet is thematized. The first performance in Germany took place on television on May 9, 1975.
action
Idaho , 2044: Karen Braden is taken to a science center by her father. Time travel was discovered there during research on teleportation. Young scientists travel into the future to assess the possibilities of building a new civilization. Only young people can travel through time because organs, such as the kidneys, are damaged in people who are older than 20 years.
Karen takes part in self-experiments with the young scientists. It reaches the year 2100. Only a few people and other living beings can be found there. The landscape is shaped by desolation and emptiness. Several remnants of civilization such as dusty and rusty means of transport and empty houses are still there. The few remaining people seem degenerate and have little interest in their own lives. The hope associated with the transfers of fleeing the threat of self-destruction into a carefree future has been dashed as a result. Moreover, it turns out that the participants in the time travel are now sterile . Because of this undesirable side effect, humanity could no longer exist after being transferred into the future.
At the point of departure, the government took over and closed the research facility without being informed about the time travel. Time travel is no longer possible. The group is divided into different subgroups. Karen wants to go back in time. Upon returning to the station, she finds two colleagues dead and is attacked by her confused colleague Leslie. She can save herself from her in the past because the time machine has been activated again. The starting point is heavily guarded.
Karen tries to get to a point in time that will allow her to undo the events, but travels to a distant future where things are even more daunting. As the only remaining test subject of the project, she walks along a highway in the final scene of the film and is taken by a family (a man, a woman, a child) in their car. Karen is not taken out of compassion, but to gain energy from her.
reception
Jay Cocks from Time Magazine sees Expedition into the Future as a science fiction film that deviates from the usual scheme and is instead adorned with a "slow and serious beauty". Peter F. Gallasch sees the film as a “consistent continuation of Easy Rider with other means”: Director Fonda shows that every possible future is always its present with lasting problems. Fonda's film speaks of deep resignation; the pictures stayed in the memory. The lexicon of international film sums up similarly, speaking of a “pessimistic vision of the future marked by resignation, which does not accuse people's irrationality, but rather registers”.
Web links
- Idaho Transfer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ time.com: "Cinema: Terminal Station" (English, December 3, 1973, accessed August 1, 2013)
- ^ In the film service , quoted from Ronald M. Hahn, Volker Jansen: Lexikon des Science Fiction Films . Volume 1, AL. Munich 1997, p. 269
- ↑ Expedition into the future. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .