Sentences with phrase «n't dystopia»

Days later I realized I hadn't been transported to some other time, but that it was now I was inhabiting; it wasn't a dystopia, it was here.

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

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While that can make a great story, its not a dystopia.

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It's not hard to imagine the dystopia that would come to pass if Chen's suggestion were to be considered with any seriousness:

Jonas won't rule any of these dystopias out, but he believes the third is most likely --» democracy allying itself with a kind of pseudo-scientific health - worshipping eco-maniacal post-family feminism, culminating in a whopping tyranny to make autocracy, or even oriental despotism, look like a Boy Scout jamboree.»

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.

But it's not a furnace - in - the - future type of dystopia.

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 allegedly benevolent tyrants who rule this British dystopia have gained power not by force but by vote, promising «freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom from boredom.»

The Brexit Secretary at least now promises it won't be «a Mad Max - style dystopia», which you might think was setting the bar a little bit low.

The good news is that we are not on the verge of what the Boston Globe has called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»

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.

The good news is that we are not on the verge of what The Boston Globe has called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»

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

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

The nation of Oceania, to phrase it another way, is so bereft of individualism and free inquiry that life in Orwell's dystopia is ultimately not worth living.

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 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.

Also, we're pretty sure we're using the word «dystopia» incorrectly, because that doesn't actually sound so bad.

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.

The real world may be a dystopia, but virtual reality is not.

But if Donald Trump has anything to say about it, there's at least one aspect of this dystopia that won't be around in the future: bureaucracy.

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.

It's masterful acting, reinforcing the concept that this whole dystopia teeters on a razor's edge because one girl couldn't stand to kill her friend.

The film is brought home by its wonderfully understated future, a world that is not an active dystopia or technological wonderland, but simply a plausible and slightly enhanced present.

More often than not, filmmakers go the dystopia route, creating meta cautionary tales.

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

It seems like a future - based, dystopia - infuenced movie at first, and while this is the case to a certain extent, what can not be denied is the realistic portrayal of a world not too dissimilar from our own; the hatred towards refugees and immigrants being one of many disturbing parts of this flick.

Summary Capsule: In a not - too - distant future, James Caan and his spiky glove defy the nasty evil corporations of dystopia by playing a really violent game when they tell him not to.

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 whiNot Too Foreign» — where characters in sci - fi or futuristic situations are often mixed race, it's explicit that they are not written as whinot 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.

Pfister's first outing isn't terrible, but its plot is typical Hollywood dystopia that fails to elevate the larger conversation about our increasing dependence upon machines.

«The images that we used for this season show the progress of humanity, but at the end of it, we don't know if it's going to be a utopia or dystopia.»

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.

It's impossible from one moment to the next to understand what's going on in Once Upon a Time in Mexico beyond a vague sense of Rodriguez's irritation with Dubya's dystopia and a feeling — sometimes operatic, sometimes not — of loss and the will to vengeance.

We've been intrigued by The Host (the monster movie, not the maligned Stephenie Meyer adaptation) director Bong Joon - ho's new sci - fi dystopia Snowpiercer.

Steeped in not only sci - fi but neo-noir, Looper submerged viewers in yet another of the filmmaker's intricate and enthralling worlds, this time a futuristic dystopia in which time travel is not just necessary, but illegal.

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.

Even in Full Sea's dystopia, however, all is not lost.

I have another book that's a time travel dystopia... it has creatures that are kind of like zombies, but aren't zombies....

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

So far, the French e-book hasn't seen much love, but the German book has been selling fairly well for a young adult dystopia n book.

Titles like Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five are unrelentingly dark, but the societies are not true dystopias.

It's been two years since David Cage announced his cyberpunk dystopia tale Detroit: Become Human, and as of right now we still don't really know anything about it.

She's also keen to emphasize that it's not all 1984 and Blade Runner — that is to say, a downhill dystopia — from here.

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.

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