Sentences with phrase «dystopic state»

An opening cinematic shows the region in dystopic state, as series mainstay IF rides her motorcycle across desolate lands like some kind of moe Mad Max.

Sixteen - year - old Katniss poaches food for her widowed mother and little sister from the forest outside the legal perimeter of District 12, the poorest of the dozen districts constituting Panem, the North American dystopic state that has replaced the U.S. in the not - too - distant future.

Not exact matches

Portraying the dystopic nature of the contemporary disintegration of the nation - state crossed with occidental failures to recognize the ongoing effects of the colonial and imperial within current geo - politics, here the immigrant, as bird (unfettered by borders), is portrayed, as per the logic of the symbolic European (or perhaps Western) state, as either pest or predator, looming over the altered image of one of the founding saints of French mythology.