Sentences with phrase «dystopia as»

In her installations she explores utopia and dystopia as inspired by Science Fiction authors such as Don DeLillo, J.G. Ballard, Aldous Huxley, and Philip K. Dick, amongst others.

I prefer to define a dystopia as a dysfunctional society.

But it's also a boldly attempted strike against the monolithic corporatization of fan service, and arguably one of the few films that defines dystopia as nothing less than a marketplace of trademarked, cross-promotional intellectual property.

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How, you wonder as you slink out of the store, did we wind up in this dark retail dystopia?

Media universally panned it — for instance, Wired referred to it as something out of a «darkly satirical science - fiction dystopia» — forcing the people behind the program into full damage control.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

But as the cave dwellers of MacIntyre's dystopia emerge into the light, what they see is not the Sun of Plato's ideal world but mere shards and fragments of the past, with no coherent way of putting the pieces back together again:

The heroine remembers the time before when she and her friends had dismissed news stories of violence done to women (as readers might dismiss literary dystopias) as «too melodramatic»: «We were the people who were not in the papers.

The sense of the end of history has been expressed, both in the extraordinary popularity of dystopias, as well as, paradoxically, in liberal philosophy that does not lack utopian traits (Francis Fukuyama).

(The latter can be regarded as an ideal system of global governance, as well as a dystopia for national democracies).

This isn't dystopia, as many think; it's a news report from 2014.

In fiction, pneumatic technology is often associated with a creaking bureaucratic dystopia, such as George Orwell's 1984 or the satirical film Brazil, but it was once widely lauded.

There are so many complexities to the levels of understanding of the future and the way in which it is represented, that this film, for all its dullard sensibilities and lewd language, is as thought provoking as any film about dystopias and the erosion of our societal standards.

The time swivels in Looper evoke some of Inception's fancy temporal tricks... But it's the glimpses of Children of Men - like societal dystopia that give the movie its real weight, and distinguish Johnson's third feature as a marked step forward.

One of the greatest films about dystopia / aspiring utopia as well as a classic romance.

The cast, which includes Jason Momoa as a sensitive cannibal, a nearly unrecognizable Jim Carrey as a sunburnt drifter, and Keanu Reeves as a Jim Jones - style cult leader in a Mad Max-esque desert dystopia, is similarly eccentrically utilized, for better (Reeves» smarmy menace) and for worse (Momoa's ill - advised Cuban accent, clearly stretching his range as an actor).

But though it derives from an ancient Greek myth, auteur Yorgos Lanthimos» most recent English - language film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, spoke to me of a more Freudian concept: the idea of psychology as an impossible, inner dystopia.

Black Holes and Revelations: Gilliam's Cluttered Dystopia a Mixed Return to Form In what stands as...

A humorous send - up of the 21st Century commune as a hedonistic dystopia for spoiled brats who can't cope with the real world.

It's impossible to guess what the end of the world might actually look like, but this alternately surreal, seductive and sobering descent into dystopia is as good a guess as anybody else's.

Set in a sleek and stylish future world, Drake Doremus» sci - fi romance envisions an understated dystopia, where all human emotion is seen as a disease that must be treated and cured.

EW does a big promo push for Snatched with Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn The New Yorker a profile of «the prophet of dystopia,» Margaret Atwood as The Handmaid's Tale gets the miniseries treatment Esquire 50 quote movie buff quiz.

11:31 a.m. Reductio ad absurdum as dystopia: In the world of Yorgos Lanthimos» The Lobster (Grade: B +), single adults are required to find a partner within 45 days or else be transformed into the animal of their choice.

And there's the éminence grise Sutherland, the reliable over-50 supporting player who shows up as curdled authority figures, corrupt commander - in - chiefs, conspiracy whistleblowers and the occasional YA - dystopia despot.

The earlygoing has a little camp value (as does the sort of surprise resurrection that ends the shipwreck), but once we get to the television - screen dystopia (The Man Who Fell to Earth) of the science lab where Daryl was born, things go straight to «I'm all out of ideas.

The Syfy channel is bringing the legendary vampire hunter back with a modern gender - switching twist, as the new action series Van Helsing follows Vanessa Helsing in a futuristic dystopia ruled by bloodsuckers, and our first official look has arrived online in the trailer for the series that first debuted last week at San Diego Comic - Con (SDCC).

The film arrives in a time after other YA dystopia franchises, such as Divergent and The -LSB-...]

Bill Paxton's presence as Cage's ideology - spewing new Master Sergeant seems meant to align Edge of Tomorrow with Aliens on some level, if not to suggest a dystopia where the dim - bulbed Private Hudsons of the world now ceaselessly march their impressionable troops into the maw of the enemy.

Sketch - show royalty, top - shelf supervillains, martial - arts dystopias — and Bruce Campbell as the Gipper

We're back in the realm of Young Adult dystopia, in this case (as revised by screenwriter Zak Penn, working with co-adapter Cline) the miserably overcrowded year 2045 in Columbus, Ohio.

No recent high - profile horror franchise has poked and prodded at America's economic anxieties with the same curiosity and sadism as The Purge series, which takes place in a dystopia where all crime is legal for one night a year.

Key features of the dystopia — Megasaki as a play on Nagasaki, mushroom - cloud animations, and, most uncomfortably, the establishment of dog internment camps — refer to historical violence inflicted on the Japanese by the U.S.

Producer Michael Auret describes the piece as an «engaging tale of hope and courage in a neo-realistic dystopia» with «universal appeal.»

While you could argue these descriptions fall into another common trope of dystopia narratives — sometimes called «But Not Too Foreign» — where characters in sci - fi or futuristic situations are often mixed race, it's explicit that they are not written as white.

With the future - shock fantasia, his third feature as a solo auteur, Gilliam ascended to the very height of his powers, bringing his patented brand of antic absurdism into the hair - raising realm of the totalitarian dystopia.

As a new entrant into the realm of future dystopias,

1984 is based on the classic science fiction novel by George Orwell, which offered a bleak vision of a future dystopia where one's thoughts and actions were controlled by a totalitarian government ruled by an entity known simply as «Big Brother».

And while Gandhi wasn't a bad biopic, its near domination of the technical awards stole the spotlight from pioneering scifi flicks such as Blade Runner - whose set design set the template for cinematic dystopias to come - and Tron, whose now - hokey light - bright costumes framed how future audiences would perceive virtual reality worlds.

I liked this one more than «Divergent,» for example, or — the more apt comparison point, utopia trumping dystopia — «The Fault in Our Stars,» which was more or less saved by Shailene Woodley as the cancer patient staring mortality and her first serious boyfriend squarely in the face.

Starring Alexander Skarsgard as a mute bartender, alongside Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux, the film screams out its Blade Runner influences, and no better time to release a futuristic dystopia coming off the heels of Blade Runner 2049.

Fahrenheit 451 has been promoted as a dystopian story because dystopia has become a fashionable notion tossed around without a sense of what it means.

I look at media, surveillance technology, and military technology now, such as drones, and really do believe we are living in the midst of some kind of Orwellian dystopia.

For every one of Andy Weir's «The Martian,» there have to be 100 military SF, zombie or dystopia amateur hours masquerading as finished works.

For some, the dystopia might not be «dystopian» enough - the disconnect between what we know and what Lepucki imagines coming across as incongruous at best.

The post-apocalyptic tale follows 16 - year - old Cassie as she navigates a bleak and dangerous dystopia following an alien invasion that has wiped out most of the human race.

It's not as dramatic or strange as vampires and dystopias, but a sizeable chunk of current YA could be categorized as «psychic thriller.»

In this devilishly hilarious satire, Shteyngart sets the love story of Lenny Abramov and Eunice Park within a digital dystopia where books are taboo and diabolical devices broadcast everyone's finances, biochemistry, and sex appeal as America collapses into ineptness, chaos, and tyranny.

Hopefully The Pitt, which is described by OXM as a «stunning dystopia that's unlike any other area in Fallout 3 «s world,» is more than Paradise Falls meets Mad Max.

From the gameplay trailer, and as Russ said in his preview it will clearly get compared to PlayDead's Inside, with the same atmospheric dystopia puzzle platformer, but do you think it can reach the same level as Inside?

Masterfully Crafted Story and Characters — The game tells the story of androids and their ferocious battle to reclaim a machine - driven dystopia overrun by powerful weapons known as machine lifeforms