Sentences with phrase «real dystopia»

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 notion that Caan could ever just blend in is laughable; in a real dystopia founded upon forced collective drudgery, he would have been among the first against the wall.

If I want a real dystopia allegory, I'll just re-read 1984 or maybe pick up Brave New World (because I've never read it and now I'll have to to understand Amusing Ourselves...).

Not exact matches

MANY years ago I thought that Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale was a 1980s feminist dystopia, scarcely connected to any real world.

The time swivels in Looper evoke some of Inception's fancy temporal tricks... But it's the glimpses of Children of Men - like societal dystopia that give the movie its real weight, and distinguish Johnson's third feature as a marked step forward.

It's kinda like science fiction — one of those post-the-collapse-of-nature dystopias of the 1970s — except it's real...

A humorous send - up of the 21st Century commune as a hedonistic dystopia for spoiled brats who can't cope with the real world.

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.

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

Though Sacred Deer makes more of an attempt to resemble real life (The Lobster was set in a heightened dystopia), it's like a warped version of a scary story told to children around a campfire, a cautionary myth in which a seemingly perfect family comes up against an inexplicable force of darkness.

In addition to saturating themselves with science fiction and dystopias, many of my students have been reading novels that deal with real - life issues.

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.

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.

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New generation nuclear power offer a real alternative — and indeed the only alternative — to environmental catastrophe due to overuse of fossil fuels, on one hand, and a dystopia of low (insufficient) energy on the other.