Idaho Transfer
- Kelley Bohanon: Karen Braden
- Kevin Hearst: Ronald
- Caroline Hildebrand: Isa Braden
- Keith Carradine: Arthur
- Ted D' Arms: George Braden
- Dale Hopkins: Leslie
- Fred Seagraves: Dr. Lewis
- Joe Newman: Cleveland
- Susan Kelly: Nurse Nora
- Meredith Hull: Jennifer
Expedition to the Future ( Original title: Idaho Transfer) is the title of a melodramatic sci-fi film of the American film director and actor Peter Fonda. In the dystopian movie from the year 1973, a bleak vision for the future of humanity is discussed on their home planet.
Action
Idaho, 2044: Karen Braden is taken by her father to a science center. Young scientists there trying to transfer items in the future. Karen participates together with the young scientists in self-experiments. You get into the year 2100., Where only a few humans and other animals are found. The landscape is marked by desolation and emptiness. Some remnants of civilization as dusty and rusted transport and vacant houses are still there. The few remaining people seem to degenerate and to be less interested in their own lives. The transfers associated with the hope to escape from the threat of self-destruction in a worry- free future, have been shattered by it.
Moreover, it turns out that the participants of time travel are now barren. Because of this undesirable side effect humanity could not continue to exist after the transfer in the future.
The group separates into different subgroups. Karen would like to return to the past. Upon returning to the station they found two colleagues dead and is attacked by a confused. You can save themselves from her in the past. There, the project has been terminated, the data transferred are thus left to their fate in the future. The base is heavily guarded.
Karen then flees in a distant future in which the states are even more discouraging. As a single leftover subject of the project it runs in the final scene of the film on a highway along and is driven by a motorist. It does so, however, not out of compassion, but her body to use as energy storage for the vehicle.
Reception
Jay Cocks of Time Magazine looks in Expedition to the future of a science fiction film that is different from your normal schedule and instead "slow and solemn beauty adorned " with a is. Peter F. Gallasch sees the film as a " logical continuation of Easy Rider by other means": Director Fonda show that every possible future is always present with their constant problems. From Fonda's film speak deep resignation; the pictures remained in my memory. Similarly, sums up the lexicon of international film, about a " pessimistic (s), characterized by resignation (s) vision of the future that are not accusing the unreasonableness of men, but registered" spoke.