Los Angeles Is . . .

LIVING IN Los Angeles is like living in a bubble rolling along a path of needles. Ya kno' its going to pop, but you just don't know when.



A YOUNG man meets and falls in love with a young woman at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. This area is known as Miracle Mile, and the whole movie takes place there. They make a date, which he misses, and while he is searching for her, he accidentally finds out that we (the United States) are about to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He frantically searches for her so that they can escape Los Angeles.

Harry finally meets the girl of his dreams--on the last day of Earth. Harry mistakenly picked up a ringing pay phone to learn that a nuclear war had already begun. Now with a ticking clock and a rioting city deteriorating around him, Harry must guide Julie to safety. But can he save himself as lawlessness becomes the norm and terror grips every living soul in the city? Written by Tim Kretschmann ( courtesy of ImDB)


The 1988 film Miracle Mile captures the paranoia that constantly grips Los Angeles. People living on top of each other. So close but yet so far. Its like a game of Telephone where what one person says may start out as the truth, but as it snakes down that line things can become twisted, more surreal than anyone can ever imagine. to understand the movie is too understand the areas:

Miracle mile is a one mile stretch between Wilshire, Fairfax, and La Brea. When my father first moved out here, "He said that it was beautiful, everything new and clean it seemed but now its just broken down. Nothing has its sheen anymore, just homless zombies, and roving rockers past their prime, with fairy dust pouring through the palms just trying to rememnber a glimpse of the stars"

Some things that may help put this in perspective:
Support_for_the_theory (broken windows theory, When people think an area is broken down they treat it as such. Crime rises, etc...)
(Quick history of Miracle Mile... Look at the history and compare it to the movie version. Kinda funny how word spreads so fast in Los Angeles about a nuclear holocaust and what does this say about this city's degrees of separation)

-- Jason Collins