THX 1138
I don’t care that it’s inaccessible and pessimistic; it’s bold and exciting filmmaking, and that’s always worth paying attention to.
Dystopian
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
I can take or leave its brutal violence and some of the political commentary is bit too preachy, but it is one of the most cohesive and compelling comics I have ever read.
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
If taken at face value as a throwaway PKD meditation on the nature of reality it is adequate. Dick’s novels are always about ideas. Not sentence construction, dialogue, pacing, or narrative cohesion.
Children of Men
The free-flowing story—where plans change, events catch the characters off guard, and the situation is evolving moment by moment—is captured perfectly by the raw, documentary-style camerawork.
Minority Report
“You created a world without murder. And all you had to do was kill someone to do it.”
Alphaville
Alphaville posits that consciousness can be awakened from the brainwashed coma of societal control through poetry—that the answer to corrupt society is personal creativity and expression.