Sentences with phrase «dystopias where»

But 2015, like every year before it, was brimming with quality cinema, whether it was in telling stories of futuristic dystopias where gas and water are at a premium, of dogged journalists hunting down the truth behind decades of sexual scandals in the Catholic Church, of human emotions personified, or real - life psychological experiments.

That's right — the Cars franchise takes place in a dystopia where all of humanity is dead, probably.

It's set in a dystopia where single people are transformed into animals; the title refers to the animal that Colin Farrell «s David has chosen to become if he can't find a mate.

It also feels like the first big film set in Trump's America, a savage dystopia where animosity toward certain people — in this case, mutants — runs amok.

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.

Homefront: The Revolution throws players into a near future dystopia where catastrophic events have brought the United States to its knees and enabled the Korean People's Army forces to impose...

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.

Ebbing isn't a hellish dystopia where summary executions are commonplace, it's a town that has history its residents fear addressing.

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».

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.

Coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Mac and Linux in 2015, Homefront: The Revolution throws players into a near future dystopia where catastrophic events have brought the USA to its knees...

Instead of being some dire dystopia where everything is dark and dramatic, like the aforementioned Fallout, it was a bit more colorful and manic.

The game takes place in a dark dystopia where drugs, VR, and neural implants ravage the remaining survivors.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, a twisted tale of men vs machines in an Asimovian dystopia where the only thing you can count on is the soldier at your back.

The Surge takes place in a distant future dystopia where Earth is on its last legs.

Gotham is a name first - used for New York in the early 19th century, which then went on to become popular when Bill Finger used it in his Batman series — which has led to Gotham being understood as a metropolis both imaginary and real, a gothic - meets - science - fiction dystopia where superheroes fight supervillains on the rooftops of the common people.

Not exact matches

A two - tier system, where some are consigned to a lawless underclass, is the stuff of dystopia rather than a modern democracy.»

But that is easier said than done in this surreal dystopia, where even if a Norwegian would, he couldn't commit suicide.

The details of his oppressive dystopia — where single people are hunted like animals even before they're turned into them and police demand documented proof of coupledom — create a fun - house reflection of our unforgiving dating culture.

In this strange dystopia, David (Colin Farrell) meets and falls for a woman from another community, where coupledom is strictly forbidden.

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.

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.

This was a particularly important process for «Equals,» where Doremus conceived a love story within an emotionless, futuristic dystopia.

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.

Now that you've read the Hunger Games, Divergent and a slew of other YA dystopias, including one titled Dystopia, where do you go next?

Homefront: The Revolution throws players into an alternate near future dystopia, where a humanitarian crisis has brought the USA to its knees under the brutal military control of a globally dominant Korean corporation.

At the same time, we are at a historical moment where the future frequently appears as a precipice between utopia and dystopia.

Dystopia and anti-utopia are not interchangeable, and as terms describe parallel conditions which emerge from diametrically opposed motives: dystopia describes a deliberately oppressive society, built from its foundations as a structure of tyranny; while anti-utopia describes a more complex circumstance where the conditions for building utopia fail, and the results amount to those of a dystopian Dystopia and anti-utopia are not interchangeable, and as terms describe parallel conditions which emerge from diametrically opposed motives: dystopia describes a deliberately oppressive society, built from its foundations as a structure of tyranny; while anti-utopia describes a more complex circumstance where the conditions for building utopia fail, and the results amount to those of a dystopian dystopia describes a deliberately oppressive society, built from its foundations as a structure of tyranny; while anti-utopia describes a more complex circumstance where the conditions for building utopia fail, and the results amount to those of a dystopian society.

2010 Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Compass In Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporaray Drawings Collection, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain Born in Dystopia, Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York, NY Push and Pull, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria Image Transfer, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Where Do We Go From here?

She presents a reality where utopia and dystopia are not polar opposites, but rather fold together in an uneasy coexistence.

With this body of work, Kurland presents a reality where utopia and dystopia are not polar opposites, but rather fold together in an uneasy coexistence.

The theme of the exhibition is dystopia, an imagined place where everything is degraded, and is part of the A Toast to the Arts: Patchogue Arts Council Founders Gala.

What: Dystopia When: October 21 — November 21, 2017 Where: Toast Coffeehouse, 46 E. Main St., Patchogue, NY 11772 Hours: Monday — Friday, 8:00 AM — 3:00 PM Saturday — Sunday, 7:30 AM — 3:30 PM

Even in Taylor's efficient dystopia, where the physical motions of line workers were timed to the millisecond, time measurement was a management technique, not a pricing model.