Word: dystopias
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...Fight”—like Eisenhower’s farewell address—is a jeremiad warning of a future in which the institutions erected for our defense rule rather than serve our society. This Orwellian dystopia seems closer than ever to reality: in the film’s closing moments Jarecki captures Richard Perle, with an entourage of arms manufacturers in tow, strolling through the corridors of the Pentagon to finalize yet another weapons contract...
...gorgeously funny." Much has changed about the movies since then, but great films have always got the magazine's attention. Here, from film critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss, is the best film of each decade since Time began. Metropolis 1927; Fritz Lang 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. Dodsworth 1936; William Wyler A tycoon goes to europe and eventually sheds glum responsibility (and a ditsy...
...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...