I had the sensation to be transported into a science
fiction world reminding me Jacques Tati's Playtime, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner or Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
Not exact matches
This is a
world where the sun always shines, black - and - white science -
fiction is usually showing on TV, and only Disasterpeace's John Carpenter-esque electronic score
reminds you something awful is looming.
But with its theme of a character realizing that all isn't what it seems like in his perfect little
world reminded me most of Dark City (although it is an entirely different movie altogether) and some science
fiction short stories.
Like most great «translit»
fiction — David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (2014), Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (2011), and Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker (2012)-- Pears» genre - bending, time - collapsing tour - de-force dazzles us with
world building, but, beyond that, it
reminds us that the people in those
worlds survive by their stories and by the way those stories reverberate backward and forward, achieving, if only now and again, the perfect harmony we all crave.
It
reminds me of one of those 1950s science
fiction movies where the scorned madman goes off to invent a Doomsday Machine to «show the
world».