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I agree with this completely. In a sense, the dystopian presentation of a movie like Blade Runner or Akira feels oddly more comforting. Street venders, gangs o
by michaelchisari 15y ago
I agree with this completely. In a sense, the dystopian presentation of a movie like Blade Runner or Akira feels oddly more comforting. Street venders, gangs of kids doing nothing in particular, smokers, etc. Even the cleanest, most polite scandinavian social democracy still has all these things, but they're conveniently left out of these "utopian" visions.
I think, if anything triggers our discomfort, it's the subconscious question of what happened to them.
- jQueryIsAwesome 15y ago>I think, if anything triggers our discomfort, it's the subconscious question of what happened to them. I don't think is that, i think is the perceived monotony; like some lack of contrast between humans and their enviroment.
- jberryman 15y agoI feel the same way about sterile utopia vs. messy blade runner-type worlds. Interestingly I'm reading Snow Crash right now, which takes place in a world that is arguable similar to the one in Blade Runner, but the anarcho-capitalist aspect of the America depicted just really gives me the creeps.
- mcclung 15y agoThis video clearly takes place after all the undesirables have been sent to the Off World Colonies.