President (Sandy McCallum), has spent the entirety of the intervening decades using its iron grip on the media and the collective imagination of the population to assure the populace that no, things aren't actually terrible at all, and the Trans-Continental is the shiniest bauble he has to distract the masses. That government, dominated by the Bipartisan Party and ruled from a Beijing office by Mr.
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There is nothing in the movie actually called a death race the title refers to the Trans-Continental Road Race, the most popular sporting event in the United Provinces of America of the year 2000, the 20th anniversary of the race that was begun as an attempt by the government to keep the population calmed down after the collapse of the American economy in 1979. Though when we glance into the future - but not so far as the immeasurably far-flung year 2000 - and find that the film's director, Paul Bartel, would later oversee Eating Raoul, it becomes at least a little bit less surprising and much easier to believe that this mix of grimy genre fare with sociological insight could exist. For it very possibly is the most trenchant satire &c., that I have seen anyway (and there are, of course, many satires I have yet to encounter), in the most surprising and delightful way conceivable.
If I were to say to you, a propos of nothing, "the most trenchant satire of American bloodlust and broken-down media culture of the 1970s was produced by Roger Corman," would you believe me? Don't bother answering, because I refuse to believe anybody would I'm the biggest Corman fan I know personally, and I was still taken completely by surprise by Death Race 2000 the first time I saw it.
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