'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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