Word: dystopia
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...mainland has undergone unprecedented economic growth that has lifted millions out of poverty. Yet, amid China's still-incomplete transition from command to market economy, many among the class of workers the country's nominally Marxist-Leninist leaders are supposed to protect?the Lumpenproletariat?are experiencing the very capitalist dystopia Marx envisioned. "There's more economic development than ever before, but workers' rights are overlooked," says Li Qiang, director of the New York City-based rights-monitoring group China Labor Watch. "You can take the name Communist Party and cut it up. This is maximum capitalism...
RIDLEY SCOTT HAS A GIFT FOR TAKING old movie ideas and investing them with chic menace--until they not only look new but also upend the whole genre. Alien reinvented the monster movie; Blade Runner set the style for science-fiction dystopia; Thelma & Louise slapped lipstick and a scowl on the face of the buddy movie; Black Hawk Down was a war movie that was all war. Scott doesn't often linger in the same genre; his restless intelligence is ever on the prowl. As he tells TIME, "A friend of mine says, 'Art's like a shark...
...cinema back from being a 21st century art form, it's people. So let's go with pixels. They're cuter, cheaper, better behaved. They can simulate funny sea creatures (Shark Tale), re-create 1939 Manhattan or Shangri-La (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), visualize a future dystopia (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence) with a wave of a wand, the click of a mouse...
...darker and more ambitious piece of filmmaking is Casshern, which was released in April. Based on a 1970s animated series, the movie depicts an Orwellian dystopia where mankind is threatened with destruction by robots and mutants of its own creation, and humanity's only hope is the idealistic android Casshern. Though the premise is run-of-the-mill sci-fi and the actors often sound absurdly bombastic, the movie is visually breathtaking. Director Kazuaki Kiriya brings to life a sooty, machine-age hell that's all grinding gears, clanking metal and monolithic buildings swathed in Cyrillic characters. The fact that...
...most famous novel is The Handmaid’s Tale, which is set in a futuristic American dystopia controlled by religious zealots...