A variety of futuristic sci-fi gags included elaborate props such as gigantic hydroponic plants, robots, flight suits, and intimacy-free techno-gadgets (the Orb, videophone, and the automated Orgasmatron)." They acquired submachine guns, ammunition, a Geiger counter, pistols, and other supplies.They approached the desolate, silent, dead and ruined city, described solemnly by Virgil as "like a storm at sea, but solidified," with twisted, melted and charred wreckage.The Tramp also finds himself dealing with various authority figures during his exploits: a ""Big Brother"" factory boss, a minister, juvenile child-care authorities, a sheriff, a shipyard foreman, a department store manager, etc.The terrified man is left hanging there to witness the death.He gazes down on the pinwheel-shaped body of the policeman flattened on the pavement.The image of the man suspended here - dangling helplessly from the rooftop and downward-looking - [his rescue is never displayed] will be the overriding, symbolic, emotional and psychological position that he will remain in throughout he rest of the film.She ried to convince herself in front of her mirror, with a sign reading ""WAKE THE F__K UP"": "Come on.