The 70s was a weird time to be alive, I tell you. You had to be there to get the zeitgeist that mixed humor, despair, and, above all else, exhaustion with believing in anything that we had been told.
The science fiction of the era extrapolated where the young people of that era would be in old age. So there were a lot of post-apocalyptic and dystopian visions. The 1974 film Zardoz was set in the year 2023. The 1975 film A Boy and His Dog was set in 2024. So that's where we are now.
The movie comes from a culture in which thermonuclear destruction is not simply warned against, but accepted as inevitable. It is obsessed with sex, but also skeptical of finding happiness through it. Hence it depicts a young man and his telepathic dog--twisted versions of idealized Americana--roaming the wastelands in search of food and sex.
Enjoy 2024.
-via Weird Universe