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Science Fiction Tricked Hollywood Into Making the Year's Most Radical Film | Motherboard

Science Fiction Tricked Hollywood Into Making the Year's Most Radical Film | Motherboard:

 "This is part of what makes science fiction so valuable; a film set in the present about a sick minority and an ex-con suffering from radiation poisoning illegally crossing the border to forcibly obtain better health care wouldn't have a snowball's chance in future-hell-Earth of getting produced in Hollywood. But that's basically the plot of this film; since it's transported into the future, its dystopian technologic sheen and eye-popping robo-visuals obscure the fact that the film is an epic, prolonged quest for social justice."




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