The Future In Dystopian Films

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The future in science fiction is generally presented in a dystopian setting . A dystopia is an imaginary world conceived as being worse than our own world while on the other hand a utopian one conceived as better.
An obvious example is provided by George Lucas’s six Star Wars films, in which each set has been was in a galaxy very far away. sci-fi films are really speaks about a setup of different sorts of existence in the world indistinguishable to our own, with the exception of the vicinity of some unmistakable anecdotal creation and its regularly offbeat or candidly tormented designer. Dystopian worlds are once in a while accused of fatigue, subsequent to their stock in exchange of human savageness remains strangely enthralling to our ordinary

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