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Lone Star dystopia with an insistent plea for the importance of reading.
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Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
Put a game with a goofy feel, a corporate dystopia, and complex systems into early access.
—Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2024
Pretty much every element of The Matrix has continued to impact high-concept sci-fi in the 25 years since its release: its depictions of dystopia and uprisings, its questioning of our accepted reality, Trinity’s specific brand of strong female character, all those duster-length jackets.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024
This blurring of real life and dystopia is fascinating, especially in a film that tends to draw a hard line between its two segments: nonfiction, based on interviews, and science fiction, stacked with genre tropes.
—Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
Put a game with a goofy feel, a corporate dystopia, and complex systems into early access.
—Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2024
Pretty much every element of The Matrix has continued to impact high-concept sci-fi in the 25 years since its release: its depictions of dystopia and uprisings, its questioning of our accepted reality, Trinity’s specific brand of strong female character, all those duster-length jackets.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024
This blurring of real life and dystopia is fascinating, especially in a film that tends to draw a hard line between its two segments: nonfiction, based on interviews, and science fiction, stacked with genre tropes.
—Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Dystopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopia. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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