100 Years of Dystopia

10 movies in this series

Now Playing Podcast looks back on 100 Years of Dystopia, tracing how filmmakers across ten decades imagined societies gone wrong. From Metropolis, Fahrenheit 451, and THX 1138 to Soylent Green, 1984, Brazil, Waterworld, Children of Men, and Brave New World, we examine a century of cinematic fears about authoritarianism, technology, environmental collapse, social control, and the future humanity keeps warning itself about.

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Brazil

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Reviewed Feb 17, 2023
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies. Genres: Comedy, Science Fiction