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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) is (loosely) based on that and also fits the dyst
by nullc 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) is (loosely) based on that and also fits the dystopia description.
It's not clear to me that this form of dystopia is really all that distinct from the Huxleyan one-- the virtuality is just a more effective soma.
- anigbrowl 10y agoThe Huxleyan one is apathetic. The Lem version is illusory.
- psyc 10y agoHow on earth could I have completely missed this movie. I just watched it, and as movies go, it was very good.
- lobster_johnson 10y ago"Loosely", ha. I would argue only thing they share is the one word in the title. It's a great book. It's interesting (in the context of this discussion) that it's a satiric dystopia in which the main character spends most of the book in a drug-induced dream about being in a future utopia that turns out to be a Huxleyian dystopia that's even worse than the present day.