Thursday, October 5, 2017

'2307 Winter's Dream' Theatrical: Many Days After Tomorrow in Frozen Wasteland of Arizona


The October 6, 2017 theatrical release of the sci-fi thriller "2307: Winter's Dream" provides a good rare chance for a fanboy theatrical first-run double-feature consisting of this one and "Blade Runner 2049," which opens the same day.

The copious fest love for 2307 includes the Best Action Film award at the 2017 Boston Science Fiction Film Festival and the Best Sci-Fi Film award at the 2017 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. Other fest bestowing comparable accolades include the 2016 Buffalo International Film Festival and the 2016 LA Indie Film Fest.

The following official trailer for "2307" clearly shows the reason for the festival love.


"2307" opens in the titular year with scenes of a winter wasteland; voice-over narration from "winter soldier" Bishop (not the same guy from the "Alien" franchise) provides good exposition. This earth of many days after the day after tomorrow is in the relatively early stages of a 1,000,000 year ice age. These "Snowpiercer" level conditions have driven surviving humans into a large habitat for humanity (a.k.a. "ark") miles below the surface of a frozen-solid Phoenix. We also learn that the powers-that-be largely have stopped trying to maintain law or order.

An homage to "Blade Runner," "Terminator," and the tons o' other similar sci-fi is in the form of the best brains of the remaining civilization creating Humanoids to do the grunt work that humans either cannot do or find unpleasant. Their design includes exceptional strength and high tolerance for low temperatures.  These anyone who has seen any of those films knows that that does not go well.

The events that set the film in motion are that Humanoid ASH-393 goes rogue in the titular year and is declared the cause of the death of the wife of Bishop. We soon learn that the present time is five years after those events; a burned-out drug-addicted Bishop agrees to lead a new Humanoidhunt for ASH-393 based on Bishop learning more information regarding the earlier events. The official interest in this is this villain leading an increasing aggressive rebellion.

Bishop and his extremely crude and tough team soon travel to the surface to get their Humanoid. Things figuratively go south fairly quickly and get worse form there. Bishop becoming separated from his group starts his adventure that provides him a first-hand view of the reality of the world on the surface.

The revelations include a group of surface-dwellers living an existence that is comparable to the Eskimos and an Army veteran (who is living with an "impossible girl") with an interesting relevant perspective.

This first big showdown is with ASH-393; the surprises extend beyond the twists in the physical confrontation. Bishop learns more about the events leading up to the death of his wife and gets a new perspective regarding the Humanoids. This leads to a second face-off that reflects many truisms of war for centuries.

In addition to presenting the compelling narrative summarized above, "2307" is like all good sci-fi in that it wraps tough-to-swallow truth pills in tasty cheese in the form of video-game style violence between mankind and the latest threat that that race creates. A member of Team Bishop praising Hitler, the obvious parallels between Humanoids and actual human slaves, and the course of evolution all receive due consideration.

Anyone with questions or comments regarding "2307" is encouraged to email me; you also can connect on Twitter via @tvdvdguy.


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