In Logans run do they achieve utopia?

Answer 1

At the end all you know is they escape the domed city

And in the real world America 1975 finally got out of Vietnam

Richard Nixon was impeached and finally apologised to the American people in his interview with David Frost

The man who shot Martin Luther King was caught and sent to prison

Ending the Race riots sweeping across America

The USA and the USSR Signed the long range ICBM Salt 2 treaty

Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David peace Treaty

Another British band The Sex Pistols toured America they took over from Dylan and put the politics back into Rock sparking a massive revolution of creativity drive in all the musical genres

If a bunch of foul mouthed scruffy punks could do so could they

And Steve Jobs after his last Tab of LSD Spent Contemplating time and space

Thought about how to put a power full computer the size of a room in the days when powerful computers were the size of rooms into something the size of a Cigarette Packet and his friend Bill Gates left IBM to start his own company

And finally in 1976 Americas celebrated its Bicentenary

And George Lucas returned from Tunisia and Elstree studios in London to release Star Wars

Lucas and together with his friend Steven Speilburg ushered in a new golden age of Hollywood Filmmaking not seen since the 1930s

Uplifting special effects driven family oriantated grand mass entertainment cimema an era we are still enjoying through to this day

Logans Run was the last of the Bleak Apocoliptic Negative Sci Fi Dystopian Fantasy horror genre films of the 1970s

It was sweepd away in the box office by the Star Wars type fantasies

Which in 2012 begs the Question if they have just remade Planet of The Apes

And they are remaking Logans Run with Ryan Gosling

Perhaps the TWO great Dystopian Narratives

One a world where humanity is enslaved by highly advanced Apes

The other where humanity is enslave in a Hedonistic paradise which is really a prison by Autoritarian Technocrates using Euphansia as a means of Population and Political Control

What is happening in the real world outside to cause there return ?