Word: sci-fi
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...with two other Bradbury one-acters, has just opened in Los Angeles. As the world's best science fiction writer, author of The Martian Chronicles and Hollywood's It Came From Outer Space, Bradbury has come to think that the world has actually entered the machine-dominated sci-fi era and that the human soul is already deep in an electronic coma. Hence his plays, though they are set in the future, are actually hyperbolic allegories of the present...
...plausible. The movie's spell holds nearly to the end, when all the far-out fun of pseudoscience suddenly shapes up as a message. Too bad that those sinister boys and girls have nothing more menacing to offer, at long last, than a muckleheaded morality play. In the sci-fi world of monsters, who wants to think about man's inhumanity...