Metropolis, 1927, Fritz Lang
The classic utopia, this is such an unbelievably great film that there’s basically nothing else to say about it, just that everyone should watch it at least once.
Brazil, 1985, Terry Gilliam
The bureaucratic utopia.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984, Michael Radford
The communist utopia, Orwell’s disturbing warnings made into equally astonishing film images.
+ an animated utopia of life underground after it becomes almost impossible above the ground:
Metropia, 2007, Tarik Saleh.
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