Tag Archives: Dystopia

Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men

By Steen | February 7, 2007

I can’t help feeling disappointed about Children of Men. I’d heard plenty of good things about it before I saw it. Not hype, but by people I know and whose taste is pretty similar to mine. Yet, the film just didn’t work for me.

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Michael Winterbottom, Code 46

By Steen | November 30, 2005

A form of hybrid between science fiction and a love story, it is also a new take on the Oedipus myth. The future of the film, not very different from our present and not dependent on special effects, is one where genetic screening is the main way of controlling people and populations; whether done by [...]

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Hal Hartley, The Girl From Monday

By Steen | November 29, 2005

I’ve just seen Hal Hartley’s The Girl From Monday which is an excellent film, so far only available through Netflix but can be purchased through Possible Films January 10, 2006. In many ways it reminds me of Abel Ferrara’s New Rose Hotel in the way that the world which is presented is the future but [...]

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The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan’s critique of the society of the spectacle

By Steen | September 19, 2005

In this paper, I investigate the binary opposition, which is instated between words as true and images as false in Warren Ellis and Darick Roberts’ Transmetropolitan series, which deals heavily with the notion of truth in a dystopic future. The series’ protagonist Spider Jerusalem is a journalist trying to show a world that doesn’t care [...]

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