So, was it the whole world?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Demolition Man
jasonblack_123 — 10 years ago(March 10, 2016 05:00 PM)
Literally just finished watching the movie again and I suddenly had a thought: Has anyone ever wondered, on viewing the movie, if it was the whole world that had become this peaceful and overly-naive or if it was just San Angeles (a la The Truman Show or The Village i.e. A controlled environment?) It would be a surprise if Spartan decided to go on vacation to say Fresno or even to a different state and found that aside from being technologically advanced, the society ideals and knowledge was exactly the same as 1996? Cocteau certainly seems like a Pied Piper like figure that can easily manipulate and get people to follow him. That really intrigues me, what does everyone else think?
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matdemon — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 09:58 PM)
This was the largest hole in the movie, honestly. I remember thinking this after I saw it in the theater.
For starters, time hadn't progressed far enough for people to "Forget" the entire past. They needed to jump ahead more like 150 years, honestly, or at least 100. That being said, from the sense of the movie it was just San Angeles that had become this utopian society, which ultimately makes no sense unless people were disallowed in/out of San Angeles; a North Korean type of zone, so to speak.
That level of depth was a bit much for this type of movie, but it still left a glaring hole.