Z.P.G. story
Z.P.G. (short for "Zero Population Growth") concerns an overpopulated future Earth, whose world government executes those who violate a 30-year ban on having children. Filmed in Denmark, the film is almost entirely set-bound featuring art direction designed to reflect a bleak, oppressive future. It is inspired by the non-fiction best-selling book The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich.
9 total · 8 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| caring for a baby | major | Carol and Hugh cherished their baby boy. |
| expecting parents | major | Carol became pregnant in spite of a government ban on having children. |
| human overpopulation | major | The film takes place in a not so distant future where the Earth has become severely overpopulated and the government forbid people from having children. |
| husband and wife | major | Russ McNeil and Carol McNeil. George Borden and Edna Borden. |
| overpopulated dystopia | major | The film takes place in a not so distant future where the Earth has become severely overpopulated and the government forbid people from having children. |
| pollution in society | major | People wore breathing masks when outside to protect themselves from the veil of smog that permanently covered Earth's cities. |
| the desire to have children | major | Carol McNeil desperately wanted to have a baby, but procreation had been banned for the next 22 years in an effort to control the population. |
| totalitarian dystopia | major | The featured future society had world government with totalitarian elements, including a general prohibition on having babies, limited access to information, compulsory brainwashing of the young, and the death penalty was used on violators of the no babies law. |
| future point of view | minor | There was a museum and a theater that showed propaganda on how the basic joys in life that 20th century people partook in were degenerate. |