TC 2000

TC 2000. T. J. Scott, dir. script. Canada: Film One (prod.) / Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment (dist.), 1993. © held by TC Productions, the "author" of the film for legal purposes. Jalal Merhi, prod. Bobbie Phillips, star.

Martial arts flik set in a post-ecological catastrophe world, with the rich living underground, protected by "Underworld security forces," esp. "Tracker/Communicator" (TC) units, one of which is seen in the opening shot: two helmeted and apparently armored figures on a motorcycle on a stretch of high-tech road among "the criminals of Surfaceworld." Underworld: modern; Surfaceworld: postmodern funky; cf. and contrast A BOY AND HIS DOG and other works using the theme of the mechanized, high-tech underworld. TC 2000X is a cybernetic TC one-entity unit: "80% human, 20% machine, and 100% dedicated to its mission." Its form is a human woman in heavy leather—the heroine of the film transformed; cf. and contrast ROBOCOP (1987) and EVE OF DESTRUCTION. Note restoration of heroine for a somewhat romantic-comic, open-ended ending to the film, and its ecological moral: a sermon to end a bit of pornorgraphy of violence.