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Things to Come (1976 film)
Things to Come is a 1976 adult science-fiction film directed by Derek Todd and released by Giant Pictures LLC.
Plot
Julie Clayburg lives with her husband Sam in a futuristic city. While she works in a call center listening to strangers confess their forbidden desires, his chief interest is watching pornographic reality TV shows. Julie discusses her disappointment with modern society with her coworker Beverly, then quickly divorces Sam. That night police briefly detained Julie for simply taking a walk.
A television lottery selects Julie for a prize stay at the Pleasure Dome, a building using virtual reality to meet any guest's desires, most of them sexual in nature. A member of a resistance movement encourages Julie to fight against the electronics used by the government to keep the population placated. She gives her a necklace with an explosive charge to destroy the powerful RK-1600 computer.
Inside the Pleasure Dome a female cyborg named Shannon-5 greets Julie in her room and introduces her to the various technologies. Shannon-5 then takes Julie and others to a climate-controlled dome resembling a real-world wooded area. There they watch motor-cross bikers chasing and killing human-looking machines for guests' amusement. Disgusted, Julie returns to her room.
A Pleasure Dome worker explains to Julie the need for people to express their desires in harmless ways, presumably to keep them from harming each other. In another section of the Dome a male “pleasure unit” named Spike (also called Alpha-9) picks up Julie in a vintage automobile and takes her to a drive-in theater, which plays a pornographic movie. When Spike attempts to seduce her, Julie flees and opens a door that leads back to the wooded area. She is now the target of the motor-cross bikers but escapes inside a sanctuary shelter.
Julie shoots a robotic security guard with a stolen weapon, then discovers the RK-1600 computer doesn't exist. Captured and strapped to a gurney, Julie is told her intelligence and call-center experience make her an excellent candidate to be a cyborg herself, humans being much less expensive for government use than robots. Julie is horrified to realize those killed by the bikers (and the security guard she shot) were sentient humans after all. The film ends with cyborg “Julie-14” cheerfully greeting the next group of guests at the Pleasure Dome.
Notes
The film accurately predicts the rise of virtual reality, reality TV, pagers and webcams, among other advances. Although serious in tone, the film contains multiple sex scenes and is not recommended for children.