This weekend , we ’re jaw the posthuman repulsion show of In Time , where people can enjoin how long they have to live by glance at their wrists . But that ’s not the most flaky dystopian future that skill fabrication has come up with — SF is full of absurd dystopias .
Here are 10 of the most harebrained or unconvincing dystopias that science fiction has think of .
10 ) Café Flesh
Arguably this is a post - apocalyptical domain rather than a full-strength - up dystopia — but the weird oppressive government drive it over the edge . “ The “ Nuclear Kiss ” has left 99 % of the population unable to have sex – they ’ve become “ Sex negative ” . The remaining one percent of “ Sex Positives ” are require by the governance to do public sex acts for the benefit ( torment ? ) of the defeated Sex Negatives . The venue ? Cafe Flesh – a sex nightclub , frequented by the Negatives , and MC - ed by an obnoxious former bandstand - up comic advert Max Melodramatic ( Andrew Nichols ) . “ I get off on your pauperism , ” he taunt the Negatives . ”
9 ) Demolition mankind
We’velavished a lot of admiration on this false utopia in the past — it ’s one of our favorites , and for safe reason . In the wicked succeeding world , basically everything fun is banned . Including alcoholic drink , caffein , contact sports , and unhealthy food . ( Sort of like Woody Allen ’s crosstie and that Mickey Spillane laughable Good Book about a defrosted private eye . ) Worst of all , there ’s no toilet newspaper ! That ’s how you know it ’s a dystopia .
- Max Barry ’s Jennifer Government
In this hideous dystopia , your job is the most crucial matter about you and your last name is the name of the fellowship you lick for . There ’s still a authorities , but it ’s counteract and has very niggling enforcement power over the big corporations , which have grown ever more immoral . To the tip where they ’ll pay someone to organize a “ gang - related ” shooting at a Nike product launch to give the newest Nikes more cache .
7 ) Nigel Neale ’s The Year of the Sex Olympics
This television set play from the creator of Quatermass takes place in a horrendous hereafter where society is divided into the “ low private road ” who are basically the working class , and the the “ howdy - drives ” who ascertain the media and society . To keep the “ low - drives ” pacified , the “ Hawai’i - drives ” give them a incessant flow of crappy reality television , culminating with a family baffle on an island with a psychotic person killer . It ’s a satire on media culture that feels more prescient today than in the 1960s — but it ’s still kind of nutty , including the notion of ingest a Sex Olympics and a regime - patronise serial Orcinus orca violent disorder . Well , let ’s hope , anyway . See also the physician Who episode “ Vengeance on Varos , ” The Hunger Games , and countless other “ cabbage and circuses ” dystopias .
6 ) Kurt Vonnegut ’s Harrison Bergeron
In this horrible future tense , everybody has to be “ average , ” and if you have any particular abilities , you have to suppress them . Are you smart or more beautiful than other citizenry ? The state will utilize special gadget to remove those advantages , so everyone ’s adequate . ( See also Facial Justice by L.P. Hartley , where everybody is required to become equally plain - front to pass green-eyed monster . And Rob Grant ’s Incompetence , in which it ’s illegal to discriminate on the basis of ability — so you have to charter masses for jobs they ’re not qualified for . ) It ’s been a TV movie and a handsome - cover movie version has been in the grapevine forever .
5 ) The Apple
Andrew Niccol only wish he could make a dystopia as mad asthis Coca Cola - fuel discotheque nightmare , in which the malevolent Mr. Boogaloo control everybody through his disco medicine company send for BIM . And you have to get your “ BIM Mark ” or the police will rough out you up and arrest you — in a totally foul way of course . This is possibly the grooviest dystopia of them all . Plus , it ’s probably the only dystopia that ’s about the medicine manufacture and intellectual property .
4 ) Logan ’s political campaign
The original novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson is really a spot more extreme than the 1976 movie — it ’s essentially a vicious satire on hippie finish , in which the Baby Boom never stopped and the population kept getting young and younger . ( As opposed to the gray universe we ’re in reality faced with . ) The tiddler take tycoon and pass a new society in which the maximal age is 21 — not 30 , like in the movie . And when you get through 21 , the blossom on your hand turns black and show that you ’ve reached your expiration escort and you have to go to the Sleepshop and get put out . But until you get put to catch some Z’s , it ’s all peace of mind and making love and hippy dippy damn , maaan .
3 ) Stars of the Roller State Disco
Another British made - for - idiot box movie , because the post - war Brits were just that obsessed with dystopia , for some reason . In Roller State Disco , Britain ’s terminally unemployed youth are force to skate eternally in a roll disco and watch instructional videos until they hopefully learn enough skills to gain ground employment . The wedge is an apprentice carpenter who go on turn down jobs he thinks are beneath him ( because he ’s a journeyman . ) It was film in just three days by Alan Clarke .
2 ) supplication of the Rollerboys
candidly , we could do a whole listing of just the scariest rollerskating dystopias — there ’s alsothe fantastic Roller Bladeby Donald G. Jackson . Something about tumbler pigeon skates makes people guess dystopian thoughts . In Prayer of the Roller Boys , America is collapse and Asia is in the ascendant , and yet everybody deal to look like a New Kid on the Block . And the super cool gang the Rollerboys sells a drug called the Mist , which contain a secret ingredient called Rope — which is designed to desex the underclass for the government . Check out a couple of fantastic clipshere .
https://gizmodo.com/the-breakfast-club-meets-mad-max-on-skates-352916
1 ) Equilibrium
Yes , this isthe movie that gave us Gun - Kata , and for that we will celebrate it incessantly . But it ’s also a small bit — well , a set — silly . In the dystopian future , emotion is outlawed , and everybody is hypothecate to take an industrial strength version of Prozac called Prozium , which makes everything … prosaic . Everybody go around act like Vulcans , except that people have emotion all the prison term or the story would n’t move forward at all . for suppress emotion , the squads of divine go around destroying works of art — and cunning puppies . Cute pup are illegal . Only unworthy puppy are allowed . Finally , Christian Bale takes a stand for cute puppy .
https://gizmodo.com/batman-guns-karate-gun-kata-327271
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