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Dystopia/Utopia. Complete the Sentence.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 11:52PM 
Given what's going on in the world, at home and abroad, and the constant tough struggle we have before us to choose love and optimism, let's talk Utopias and Dystopias. It's the subject, in a way, of two current movies: Captain Fantastic and Star Trek Beyond. But dystopias are plentiful in cinema. So, let's complete the sentence...
My favorite movie dystopia is __________ but I hope this world turns out more like the utopia imagined in __________.
Reader Comments (15)
My favorite dystopia movie is Brazil but I hope the world turns out more like the utopia imagined in the ending of This is the End.
My favorite movie dystopia is "Pleasantville" (because that's a dystopia of ignorance), but I hope this world turns out more like the utopia imagined by Poppy in "Happy-Go-Lucky."
Dystopia: Clockwork Orange; Utopia: Auntie Mame
My favorite movie dystopia is Planet of the Apes (1968) but I hope this world turns out more like the utopia imagined in Her.
(Almost typed Brazil and I probably should have waited until after seeing The Lobster this evening.)
My favorite movie dystopia is Stalker but I hope this world turns out more like the utopia imagined in The Young Girls of Rochefort.
My favorite movie dystopia is Snowpiercer but I hope this world turns out more like the utopia imagined in Her.
Though Julianne Moore as the PRESIDENT in Hunger Games gives everything else a run for its money.
My favourite movie dystopia is Idiocracy, but I have no real answer for the second part as far as movies are concerned. (If we can include TV shows, it's probably a fight between classic Jetsons and Star Trek.) Just put me down as Sure, Not.
Paul Outlaw: Um...huh? I didn't really see Her as a utopia. Not a DYStopia, but not particularly a utopia either.
Favourite dystopia would be "Blade Runner", I even own a dvd that gives me 3 versions of it.
But it's so seminal in terms of production design it has been extremely influential.
Now Utopia is harder to find, I think the most recent Star Trek qualifies, although a Star Trek with Patrick Stewart in charge is probably the best. I would spend every bit of free time in the holodeck.
@ Volvagia
"...I hope this world turns out more like..."
"Nobody's perfect." (Some Like It Hot)
My favorite movie dystopia is Children of Men but I hope this world turns out more like the utopia imagined in the end of Carol.
My favorite movie dystopia is Blade Runner but I hope this world turns out more like the utopia imagined in the end of A.I. (because humans won't be there to fuck things up anymore).
Dystopia: Blade Runner
Utopia: Star Trek: The Next Generation (any of them)
My favorite movie dystopia is Equilibrium (everything about "Gunkata" is so ludicrous that I immediately fell in love) but I hope this world turns out more like the utopia imagained in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. ... Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
My favorite movie dystopia is Code 46 but I hope this world turns out more like the utopia imagined in Big Hero 6.
My favourite movie dystopia is Blade Runner but I hope this world turns out more like the utopia imagined in Minority Report.
P.S I was going to say Utopia - Star Trek TNG, but Deborah Lipp was ahead of me and I didn't want to seem like a copy cat :)
All movie Utopias have their dark undercurrent but I like Gene Roddenberry's vision of a future without race, sex or religious discrimination; where hunger and war has been eradicated (on Earth at least) and humanity looks to the Stars for adventure and new challenges, not to conquer.