Dead End Drive-In story
A teenage couple become trapped in a drive-in theater which is really a concentration camp for societal rejects. The inmates, many of whom sport punk fashion, are placated with a steady diet of junk food, new wave music, drugs, and exploitation films.
18 total · 10 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Crabs and his girlfriend Carmen were confined to a drive-in theater that had been converted into concentration camp for undesirable and unemployed youths. |
| crime | major | We saw a city plagued with street crime in the wake of a world economic collapse. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Crabs and his girlfriend Carmen were confined against their will in a drive-in theater that had been converted into concentration camp for undesirable and unemployed youths. While Crabs was preoccupied with escaping his captivity, everyone else, Carmen included, seems perfectly content to be stay there. |
| immigration in society | major | The youths in the concentration camp, save for Crabs, convinced themselves that Asians were to blame for their problems. This was probably intended to be a commentary on prejudice against immigration in Australia. |
| institutional risk to civilization | major | The film is set in a near future in which the world economy economy has collapsed and crime is totally out of control inside cities. |
| post-apocalyptic dystopia | major | The film is set in a near future in which the world economy economy has collapsed and crime is totally out of control inside cities. |
| racism in society | major | The youths in the concentration camp, save for Crabs, convinced themselves that Asians were to blame for their problems. |
| romantic love | major | Crabs and his girlfriend Carmen. |
| unemployment in society | major | We saw a society in which unemployed youths were confined in drive-in theaters that had been converted into concentration camps. |
| xenophobia in society | major | The youths in the concentration camp, save for Crabs, convinced themselves that Asians were to blame for their problems. |