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  • Esoteric Happy Ending: Russ and Carol escape along with their baby, thanks to being prepared, but land on a beach littered with radiation warning signs, where nuclear missiles were buried in the past as part of a disarmament. Obviously extreme danger of death by radiation poisoning exists there. Roll credits...
  • Fridge Logic: You'd think the famine mentioned in the film would have brought down the surplus population a bit. Also, since the government has no problem with killing anyone who violated the reproduction ban publicly, why do they bother keeping elderly people alive? You'd think at the very least they would offer euthanasia, which no doubt many would then take, since it seems like a very unhappy society. Also, wouldn't sterilizing women be cheaper than making them always abort, plus easier to enforce?
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The film features a store called "Babyland", where parents can buy artificial babies to play with. A few years later, Cabbage Patch Kids would come out, all of which were "born" at "Babyland General Hospital".
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The film likely owes its relative obscurity to this. There’s really no point in caring about what happens since we know that the environment has been ruined to the point that the human race will soon be doomed to extinction even with the titular population control initiative in place. The Esoteric Happy Ending really doesn't help, nor does the intentionally claustrophobic, studio-bound production.


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