As a follow-up to my last post, I wanted to delve into the two great satire-epics in more detail. First up, the satire that came true: Brave New World! And as the title says, I would also like to include a little commentary on the thoughtful essay that capped off his thoughts about his magnum […]
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by storiesbywilliams on October 11, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged Aldous Huxley, benjammin bratt, Brave New World, cryogenic, cryoprison, demolition man, denis leary, dr. raymond cocteau, dystopian, Fight of the Dead, Holtak harca, István Nemere, john spartan, Lenina Crowe, lenina huxley, movie review, nigel hawthorne, pc age, raymond cocteau, san angeles, sandra bullock, satire, satirical, Sci-Fi, science fiction, simon phoenix, social commentary, sylvester stallone, utopian, wesley snipes
Ah yes, another classic guilty-pleasure movie! At least, that is my enduring opinion of this film. When I first saw it as a surly teenager, I thought it was a good shoot-em-up. As I got older, I recognized the satirical elements in it – or rather, the attempts at them – and concluded that they […]
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