Sentences with phrase «into dystopias»

They investigate visions that have turned out to be illusions or utopias that have become into dystopias.

I'm into dystopias.

To a secular liberal, it might look more like a descent into the dystopia of The Handmaid's Tale.

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.

You can guess that the novel pretty quickly spirals off into dystopia.

Bombarded by story after story on the collapse of our republic into a dystopia uninhabitable to any except the lizard people running the oval office (alternative fact: Steve Bannon is a gutter cigarette in human form), it...

However, the scene quickly turns into a dystopia, as one realizes this virtual reality might be our future, as a consequence of the global climate changes and environmental problems.

Not exact matches

She also gets into the backstory of Hulu's award - winning dystopia The Handmaid's Tale:

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.

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:

Turning the country into an AI leader would allow France to use AI for the public good and ensure that a «Promethean» promise doesn't become a «dystopia,» he said.

I'm not a huge dystopia fan but every so often I'll get into one.

Critic Consensus: The Rain starts out slow, but develops into a thrilling addition to the dystopia television genre.

Like a spoof mash - up of Mad Max and Machete, this nutty action movie throws us into a Wild West dystopia with enough wit and energy to overcome its clunky production values.

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.

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.

But returning collaborator Rachel Weisz promises that, despite hewing to English history fairly closely, the film is another bleakly funny trip into a «Yorgosian dystopia,» a phrase so immediately evocative it proves the director is ready for the adjective treatment.

Not only because of its teen - friendly stars, but because it fits into the current trend of YA future dystopias.

Though he doesn't quite connect the dots between them, each entry into the series continues the trek into full - on, post-apocalyptic dystopia.

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.

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.

A hipster dystopia to Jasmine, her new digs are home to estranged sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins), a manic grocery clerk perpetually settling for palooka types like current beau Chili (Bobby Cannavale) and ex-husband Augie (Andrew Dice Clay), who understandably never forgave his in - laws for persuading him to invest his 200 - grand lottery win into Hal's sinking business.

Colin Farrell, sporting a «dad bod» and soup - strainer moustache recalling Joaquin Phoenix in Her (decidedly a blueprint for contemporary renditions of dystopia), finds himself caught in this detention system after being left by his wife, and after an unfruitful dalliance with a sociopathic fellow inmate, escapes into the woods and joins a group of militantly celibate rebel fighters led by Léa Seydoux (who bans sexual relations within their ranks), but — oh the irony!

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...

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.

It isn't some sentimental war story, but a highly detailed, near - encyclopedic compendium that goes deep into V - 2 rocket technology, secret Nazi collaborations with U.S. corporate interests, the dawning atomic age and a kind of fascist dystopia.

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,

In 2018, nearly everything is in place for a descent into a Ready Player One - style dystopia.

Supernatural and dystopia are slowly fading out, while more realistic elements are sinking into society.

I suppose right now, everybody's into... vampires and very flashy, brutal dystopias; «The Giver» is so quiet, compared to that — no vampires.

But the book she's releasing in December 2017 marks her first venture into full - blown sci - fi dystopia.

Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson (Doubleday) An elaborately designed novel that weaves a 19th - century manuscript into its pages, this story of a future dystopia created through an alternate past (Texas gained independence, for one) is an original and thrilling ride.

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...

«Black The Fall plunges players into a deeply atmospheric communist dystopia, in which they must solve a series of puzzles to survive in a world determined to keep them trapped in the system.

But gaming has transformed dystopia into a...

Even the story has the classic Zelda flavour to it, you play as a plucky adventurer who must save the land from an evil bishop who wishes to turn the world into a monster filled dystopia.

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.

That probably makes it sound pretentious, but as anyone who dived into the deep - sea dystopia of the first two Bioshocks can tell you that's actually a very, very good thing.

In the case of the painted faces of the New York exhibition, they seem to expand into the realm of dystopia.

Tomaselli asserts, «I am constantly searching this rubble to find things worth saving, and this inquiry into utopia / dystopia - framed by artifice but motivated by the desire for the «real» and the transformative - has turned out to be the primary subject of my work.»

His use of captured movement creates a suspended dreamlike space that, while written in recognizable forms, transforms into a surreal dystopia when combined with hyper - real depictions of anonymous modern spaces.

Using appropriation more pointedly, works from Martha Rosler's powerful Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful series (1967 - 72) juxtapose images from lifestyle magazines with found Vietnam War photography to wrench a distant, all - too - real dystopia into the living rooms of middle - class Americans.

The bard of technological dystopia, Jon Rafman freaked everyone out last year when he took over a hotel room at the Deauville and handed visitors an Oculus Rift that, when donned on the balcony, made it seem like the universe was falling apart... a shock to the system that led naturally into his current Zabludowicz Collection show in London.

With the dazzlingly cataclysmic sunsets and portentous musical soundtrack nearby bleeding into her performance, this improbable political commentator takes on a phantasmagoric presence: a talking head belonging to a world on a knife edge between utopia and dystopia.

Importing reflections on yesterday's dystopias to today, an international group exhibition across the hall, «Futures,» examined retro - futurist nostalgia: «How do outdated desires gain new, unfamiliar forms and turn anew into promises for the future?»

Details about the tunnel, which was reportedly used to send North Korean spies into the South, introduces fragments of division, suspicion and dystopia in the video.

Booted up «Project Hieroglyph ``, a big shiny movement devoted to chasing dystopia down into the cellar and replacing it with upbeat, optimistic science fiction that could Change The World.

I am part of a generation of activists who wonder if it is worth it to have children in the future — to bring them into this climate dystopia.