Godard's bleak sci-fi noir, with the stony-faced gumshoe Lemmy Caution turning inter-galactic agent to re-enact the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in conquering Alpha 60, the strange automated city where such emotions as love and tenderness are banished. A brilliantly realised and stylish satire on the dehumanising nature of technology.
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AVALON (OSHII) (2001)
Certification12 Our Rating
A hybrid science fiction movie from Manga Man, Mamoru Oshii. Set in a dystopian future, the young inhabitants of an anonymous Eastern European state (well, it might be Poland...) have become dangerously addicted to a virtual reality game called Avalon. Ash, a lone player who lives a solitary existence begins to get drawn deeper and deeper into the game and before long it becomes unclear as to whether she can ever find her way back, or whether she wants to for that matter. Using tinted monochrom
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THX 1138 (1970)
Certification15 Our Rating
A brilliant sci-fi film about a completely automised/computerised society and one mans disillusion and break from it. Based on Zamyatin's novel "We", the book that got him kicked out of the Soviet Union in 1922 and was also the inspiration for "1984". A movie with brilliant visual style.
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