On a movie and an original poem
Watched an interesting movie last night called Population 436 (2006). It is one of these movies that is like an extended Twilight Zone episode. It is about a Chicago-based census taker played by Jeremy Sisto (whom I kind of like; he was in the first Wrong Turn movie, which I thought was good as horror films go).
Anyway, the premise is the main character is visiting a small town called Rockwell Falls in the Midwest to take a census, and the town turns out to have had a population of 436 for more than a century because there is kind of religious cult there that kills people if the population goes over that number and forcibly includes people like the census taker if it goes under that number. They also accuse people of “fever” and sometimes lobotomize them, if they want to leave.
I won’t call this a “B” movie but rather an independent. It seems to be about a town that has achieved what we called in college economics “autarky” meaning near total independence from the rest of the world, like North Korea in reality or the fictional rural village in the film The Village by M. Night Shyamalan. It also reminded me of formal population control in China.
“Underway” by yours truly
Underway:
‘Nother day.
What can I say?
More to play.