Just curious if anyone else can recommend a film or book with similar tones? I know there are lots of bad attempts made by Hollywood, but can anyone recommend a good one please?
The ones that come to my mind off hand are:
Children of Men
The Road
Rollerball (1978)
Mad Max
Gattica
I was about to suggest some of my personal favourites but some of them have already been mentioned. Others that come to mind are:
The Handmaid's Tale
Code 46
A Clockwork Orange
Metropolis
The Matrix
They Live
Dark City
12 Monkeys
Watchmen (Just like V for Vendetta, it could be considered a dystopian tale ...)
There are others that could be classified as dystopias IMO: District 9. And how about Idiocracy? Strange Days? Blindness? And 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later? Or the Alien series?
I'm sure that many more. These are the first that came to mind.
Great picks. I've seen and enjoyed most of these films. I just remembered these:
Escape From New York
Akira
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It didn't exist at the time of thbe original post, but HUNGER GAMES is definitely dystopian.
I didn't see the "Children of Men" movie, but I read Lady James' book and it didn't strike me as dystopian. The human race is facing a crisis (inability to reproduce) and a politician seizes power. But it's the natural crisis, and not the dictator, that's the more important threat.
Yes, Hunger Games definitely. As for the film version of Children of Men, we are shown the last remaining functioning government, who appears to be very oppressive to the perceived threat of immigrants and other non citizens. To keep law an order they resort to a fascist martial law type rule ( shown at the end of the film anyways ).
On the other end we have an extremely left wing terrorist group fighting to overthrow the government. It's the everyday citizens that are caught up in the middle of this struggle who pay dearly and we catch a glimpse of the upper class living in a walled off, protected city block with what appears to be the finest luxuries of life.
This was what struck me as dystopian.
I'd like to see Anthem made into a film. I haven't checked to see if it actually has been, though.
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Blade Runner
Dark City
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Elysium - most of the world living in *beep* conditions while a few ruling elite live in a luxury orbitting satellite
Battle Royale.
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