Genesis II story
The film tells the story of a 20th-century man thrown forward in time, to a post-apocalyptic future, by an accident in suspended animation.
10 total · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| pacifism | major | PAX slaves, being pacifist by nature, were reluctant to consent to Dylan's plan to revolt against their Tyrian masters. |
| post-apocalyptic dystopia | major | The film was set in a post-apocalyptic future where people were still recovering from a catastrophic world war. |
| slavery | major | The Tyranians, who ruled what was once Arizona and New Mexico, systematically enslaved humans. |
| social oppression | major | The Tyrians systematically enslaved the PAX people. |
| suspended animation | major | Astronaut Dylan Hunt was put into suspended animation and woke up in the year 2133. |
| what if I found myself in the future | major | Astronaut Dylan Hunt was put into suspended animation and woke up in the year 2133. |
| coping with being tortured | minor | Dylan Hunt was tortured by the Tyrians. |
| fusion power | minor | Nuclear fusion energy seemed to be the primary power source of both the world of 1979 and 2133. |
| speculative torture device | minor | A Tyrian man used a pain inducing wand to torture Dylan Hunt. |
| World War III | minor | An event called "The Great Conflict" (i.e. a third and final World War) destroyed the civilization of Hunt's time. |