The usual dystopian violence.
So instead of AI sending robots into a human-slaying frenzy, per the usual dystopian sci-fi storyline, we find ourselves confronted with neural nets being used to serve up contextual illustrations of children so parents can gift personalized books that seamlessly insert a child's likeness into the story, thereby casting them as a character in the tale.
Whether or not you walk away from "Tomorrowland" feeling inspired with a sense of hope and activism, or simply dazzled by the visuals, it's at least reassuring to see a major summer movie evading the usual dystopian cliches.
These "hidden poor" are in Kensington, Middle England, as well as in the usual wrung out, hopeless, dystopian urban neighbourhoods.
My usual first choice of book doesn't usually fall amongst dystopian novels, but Veronica Roth exceeded all of my expectations.
The usual suspects of the genre thought more like myself, in all their disheartening, dystopian dung-filled outlooks; but still, I found myself loving the series just the same.
Dystopian fantasies are uniquely suited to the young adult reader, mainly because the usual story line — the hero realizes that his or her "perfect world" isn't perfect after all — mirrors the experience of venturing from the relative safety of childhood into the harsher realities of adult life.
They will have to cope with the tension between the risk of a technocratic and dystopian future, the promise of a dream-like utopia or tech-enhanced business as usual.
With this work, Kelvin Kiarie, 21, portrays nightmares of a dystopian world overrun by Maasai vampires killing for human blood – the idea being that their usual diet of raw cow's blood with milk would no longer be sufficient.
In "Code 46," a somber new dystopian romance that opens today nationwide, the prolific and stylistically promiscuous English director Michael Winterbottom forgoes the usual indulgences of special effects and elaborate set design, preferring to glean the contours of the future from an observation of the present.
Based on disused Kodak stock, it has been left in the sun to distress and features higher than usual levels of silver, giving the movie a damaged, otherworldly, post-apocalyptic sheen, like nothing seen since the sepia-toned dystopian world of Ridley Scott's Bladerunner.
