Tonight, I created a short yet concise episode about something that I was contemplating some time ago and published it for the first time in The World of Apu, an online film magazine. As the episode’s title implies, it concerns a pessimistic or even horrific view of our future.
References
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/society
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/utopia
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dystopia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dialogues_of_Plato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lob
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
http://theworldofapu.com/category/film-analysis/
Dystopian Films
Metropolis (1927)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Alphaville (1965)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
The Omega Man (1971)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
THX 1138 (1971)
Mad Max Franchise (1979, 1981, 1985, 2015)
Brave New World (1980)
Escape from New York (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Videodrome (1983)
Nineteen Sighty-Four (1984)
Threads (1984)
Brazil (1985)
Dead Man’s Letters (1986)
RoboCop (1987)
The Running Man (1987)
Total Recall (1990)
Demolition Man (1993)
Fortress (1993)
The Stand (1994)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Judge Dredd (1995)
12 Monkeys (1995)
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Strange Days (1995)
Waterworld (1995)
Starship Troopers (1997)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Gattaca (1997)
The Postman (1997)
Dark City (1998)
Pleasantville (1998)
eXistenZ (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
Battle Royale (2000)
On the Beach (2000)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Equilibrium (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Resident Evil (2002)
The Time Machine (2002)
28 Days Later (2002)
Code 46 (2003)
I, Robot (2004)
The Island (2005)
V for Vendetta (2005)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
I Am Legend (2007)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Children of Men (2008)
Blindness (2008)
Daybreakers (2009)
District 9 (2009)
The Road (2009)
Watchmen (2009)
Book of Eli (2010)
Never Let Me Go (2010)
The Divide (2011)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Looper (2012)
Snowpiercer (2013)
The Congress (2013)
Elysium (2013)
The Purge (2013)
The Zero Theorem (2013)
The Rover (2014)
Z for Zachariah (2015)
Westworld (2016 – )
The Handmaid’s Tale (2017 – )
Hotel Artemis (2018)
Ready Player One (2018)
Brave New World (2020)
That was really interesting well done mate. I think that we are all pessimists at heart and love to be proven wrong unfortunately that doesn’t happen very often as we live in a evil world
Cheers Gary! Much appreciated!!! I don’t think any of us will see a utopic sci-fi any time soon. The current hard times are putting us to the test…