Word: dystopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AUTEUR THEORIES OF film have always been closely linked to a study of the expressive self, and for Truffaut the Doinel films, The Wild Child, with its version of natural man, and Fahrenheit 451, a view of the individual in a repressive dystopia, are all tied to this theme. Now he has made what seems to be seem kind of auteur ultimate: a film where the director is himself the individual studied. Comparisons with Fellini's 8 1/2 are hard to avoid, and they are not to the advantage of Truffaut's film. Truffaut has even borrowed Fellini's peculiar...
...caves, miserable and naked. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better world." A world increasingly threatened by universal pollution and weapons of total destruction needs Utopian thinking more than ever. It may be that only a vision of Utopia can combat the dystopia of contemporary life...