But in the grim aftermath of the election, as I struggled to grasp that The Man in the High Castle could be happening in my lifetime, I began to doubt my own faith in dystopia ― a genre that both warned me of a terrifying future and often allowed me to rest in comfortable ignorance of a terrifying present.
They are very different movies — Mr. De Palma's is insistently political, while the Coens' is cloaked in allegory — but each presents a cold, terrifying vision of a universe where justice is no match for brutality.
The thought of being in a foreign jail, in a country where you have been accused of attacking electronic assets at a time when terrorism was an ever-present threat, was terrifying.
So, presented with the terrifying fact that its main content sharing medium was woefully ill-equipped for the shift from keyboards to cameras, Facebook did what it's best at: adapting, even if its users don't always like it. .
It's been incredibly hard, and terrifying, to present my ideas of a quality education in front of older men with military achievements, who unfortunately do not stand for the same values I do.
The present is an utterly terrifying place to exist within which is why most of us subsume ourselves in the shallow waters of memory, splashing about in the rock pools of that which has already happened, or tip-toeing through the ephemeral foam of daydreams of the near future.
In London, a city that cares deeply about financial gains, the Remain camp presented a slew of terrifying statistics, and the Leave campaign offered a rebuttal, using the same fear tactics.
Every evening at dinner, his wife was present, quiet, obviously terrified and casually humiliated by him in front of us.
One of the young people present was so terrified that he jumped out a window and suffered a fractured spine.
With this play, McBurney not only establishes himself as a gale force in American theatre, but has dared - with Pacino, of all people - to do what no homegrown director has done: survey the American present through the prism of terrifying, universal history.
In 24 hours, I will fly home to New York, after a month in the Middle East reporting on the Iraqi refugee crisis -- on the terrifying past, miserable present, and uncertain future of the estimated two million people who have fled the war.
