In a blackly satirical near-future, a thriving industry sells celebrity illnesses to their obsessed fans. Movie shorts set in The Matrix's universe. Loosely based on Peter Chung's animated TV series, Æon Flux (1991).Īn unnamed archivist ( Pete Postlethwaite) lives alone in the devastated world of 2055, looks back at "archive" footage from 2007, asking "Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?"Ī Cantonese–speaking Chinese family was forced to relocate to a rural kampong home, not long after Malaysia was turned into a military dictatorship and where racial segregation between the ethnic groups of the country became strictly enforced.Īn anime-film, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo (based on his manga of the same name), set after Tokyo is destroyed in 1988 and is rebuilt as "Neo-Tokyo." In 2019, a secret Japan Self-Defense Forces project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging, psychic psychopath.Īlita, an amnesiac cyborg girl who sets out to learn about her destiny after she awakens in a new body with no past memory of who she is.Ī secret agent, is sent to the distant-space city of Alphaville, where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler. A distraught family is given a robotic boy with "real" emotions, but is misunderstood by the rest of society.Īeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. "Everyone is finally equal".īased on Brian Aldiss' short story, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969). Short-film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's, Harrison Bergeron (1961). Loosely based on George Orwell's novel, Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1949). The suave prison warden ( Don Francks) focuses his interrogations on Weston - who had ironically refused a proposition by business interests to kill Fontaine before his inaugural.Ī bureaucrat falls in love in a futuristic, totalitarian, surveillance state. Fontaine in Canada brings about a totalitarian regime, upon which businessman Tom Weston and others are taken prisoner on suspicion of being part a counter-revolutionary plot. Based on Chris Marker's short film, La Jetée (1962). Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, ruthless megacorporations, environmental disasters, or other characteristics associated with a dramatic decline in society.Ī convict is sent back in time to gather information about a virus responsible for wiping out most of the human population. Dystopian societies appear in many speculative fiction works and are often found within the science fiction and fantasy genres. Not to be confused with List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction.
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