The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight Rises completes Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. It is set in the extremely messed-up city of Gotham, which is clearly modelled on the less fictional, but equally messed-up, New York.
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The Dark Knight Rises completes Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. It is set in the extremely messed-up city of Gotham, which is clearly modelled on the less fictional, but equally messed-up, New York.
Read More →Metropolis is the classic silent-movie industrial dystopia from 1927. It portrays a futuristic city comprising a two-tier society of haves and have-nots who are kept unaware of each other’s existence.
Read More →A Clockwork Orange is a brutal Stanley Kubrick film, based on the Anthony Burgess novel. In the near future society is in decay, and the streets are overrun by violent gangs. The government has a new heavy-handed test project, designed to re-program these renegades, in order to free up the overcrowded prisons to make space for political prisoners.
Read More →Fahrenheit 451 is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, by Ray Bradbury. It is a tale of an oppressive future where books are blamed as the unsettling force that makes people discontent with their lot, and undermines the stability and smooth running of society. So the books have to be burned.
Read More →What is The Matrix? The movie explores the nature of reality, in a distant dystopic future in which man’s mechanical creations have been become unmanageably powerful and rebelled against their creators (not unlike The Terminator‘s ‘Skynet’). It follows the path of one man’s quest for the ‘truth’.
Read More →V For Vendetta is set in a near-future covert totalitarian British state which maintains its control through propaganda and media supremacy, backed up with brutally violent suppression of any dissent. The masked hero, ‘V’, attempts to wake up the citizens to the reality of their plight, and to instigate an uprising against the oppressors. It is the ambiguous tale of the anti-hero who resorts to extreme measures in extreme times.
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