Re:Logan’s Run
How convenient too that once through the door with the key there is no turning back. Otherwise the people in the basement who help the Runners would have learned that there is no Sanctuary since a psychotic robot is putting them on ice. The one-way key makes it look like more of a set-up to me.
One thing though, the Dome computer which pretty much controls society must still think there is a Sanctuary since it sent Logan out to find it, but a computer only knows as much as it’s told. Those people who set up the computer might have been the same ones who created the Sanctuary myth — the computer may have been programmed with limited knowledge. It does lead me to believe at the very least that the computer is not aware of what Box is doing or what’s happening to the Runners. However, Logan unwittingly leads the other Sandmen to the nest of dissidents where they are killed — maybe that was the main plan. Erm, but then again, the computer can’t accept or understand that there is no real Sanctuary when it questions Logan.
An aside: I wonder what Ustinov’s lone character is doing on the outside? And what about his cats. Maybe his ancestors escaped from the dome, perhaps there are more domes, or perhaps they somehow survived the events in the outside world (nuclear fallout or whatever) that forced people to move into domes and forced society to develop a renewal belief system so that people would better accept the extreme population control that was necessary when the outside world was, presumably, unliveable. Maybe others escaped before, and therefore, although Logan doesn’t realise it, there really is/are Sanctuary (the world’s a big place to explore).