Word: dystopia
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...while, Batman Begins is fitfully entertaining. Maybe the Force, with its ascetic demands, is too strong with our modern superheroes: enigmatic mind games are played as the karate chops fly. It may also be true that urban dystopia has become too much a ruling cliche in movie art direction. The weather in Gotham is perpetually inclement, and its garbage is forever uncollected...
Lang's epic poem of urban dystopia and class warfare set the standard for imagining the future-and how it might feel to be a part of it. Even now, in the age of CGI, his dark vision remains unsurpassed...
...Palindromes” goes beyond the bounds of Solondz’s past tales of suburban dystopia, as its narrative sets up, according to Solondz, “a structure of a Jewish liberal secular family and a conservative Christian one; those are such poles apart that to throw into relief the moral dimensions of some of these convictions that we stand by and what it really means...
...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...