A typical dystopian film illustrates a functional society portrayed in the existing future when life is not only unpleasant and frightening; it resembles characteristics of the current time period. These characteristics are often taken to the extreme with the intention of critiquing present political and technological influences. In an excerpt titled, "Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia," the author, Judith Kerman, discusses the relationships between Blade Runners' (1982) "implicit political critique and the technologies which it presents as a typical of and central to the story."
(Kerman,) This critique is also evident throughout other dystopian films such as Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Matrix (1999).
There are three main themes that are apparent in all three movies; the evident hierarchy structure of society where upper, middle and lower class are definite and for the most part, unchallenged, a strict conformity among citizens of what is real with the......
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