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John is played by Alden Ehrenreich, who recently played the young Han Solo. In a sense, he's our killer robot, the potential spark that could burn everything down, but despite Ehrenreich's smoldering, the character is something of a cypher. The creators include showrunner Dave Wiener (Homecoming, Fear The Walking Dead); directors Owen Harris (Black Mirror) and Ellen Kuras (Umbrella Academy); and comic iconoclast Grant Morrison; and they craft an intricately unsettling future -- then make you itch to burn it down."Some nights I can't sleep the whole night because my nightmares wake me up or worse, I can't fall asleep because the flashbacks won't let me," she told Victorian County Court Judge Frances Hogan on Tuesday.
PHNOM PENH, July 15 (Reuters) - Cambodia's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the case of a translator jailed for involvement in a Russia Today documentary about sex trafficking be heard by an appeal court, due to what his lawyer said was a "factual problem" during his trial.
The Australian Medical Association (WA) says it understands the Department of Health recently determined Sexual Assault Resource Centre doctors would no longer be recognised as specialists and have their pay cut by five grades after a protracted two-year review and negotiations.
The documentary Mony worked on, "My Mother Sold Me", included an account of a Cambodian girl from a poor family who it said was sold into sex work, prompting authorities to question the people involved in her alleged sale.
It's just ambiguous rather than audacious, carried largely by the characters rather than the concept.
The same isn't true of his mother, a disturbed and drunk blonde with a haunting backstory. One is a future that looks like the future, playboy and the other feels stalled in the present. That's because the haughtily emotionless elite of this society accept a tyrannical hierarchy and total lack of personal freedom in exchange for technological trinkets, mood-altering drugs and shimano ty300 neon-lit rave orgies.
But even despite the breadths of themes explored, there are some gaps. Brave New World is less immediate. Dressed in anonymous grey and beige suits, the characters drift amid steel and concrete sets that look like a WeWork and a prison all at the same time. The scene-stealing actor playing this haunted character will probably look familiar, but it may take you a second to make the connection when you see Demi Moore's name in the credits.
In this finely-balanced future, everybody aspires to an emotional state as level and blank as a concrete floor.
A lower court last year sentenced Rath Rott Mony, 49, to two years in prison for incitement to cause discrimination, after he assisted a Russian news crew in the making of a film that the government said contained "fake news" about Cambodia.
There are echoes of Westworld in these two overlapping worlds.
Primarily, when a story deals with inequality, genetics and so-called "savages," it feels like a glaring omission to have no direct acknowledgement of race in the fictional world. I'm not trying to be reductionist: This version of Brave New World is absorbing, uncomfortably compelling and beautifully produced.
Everything's the grey of an Ikea sofa or a headstone. But the fact remains, Huxley's vision is somewhat wide-ranging, especially compared with The Handmaid's Tale or 1984 or other dystopian fictions.
I wasn't prepared for how scathingly direct or unsettlingly dark it was, and still is. The story begins in New London, where there is no privacy, no family, and no monogamy.
Or, to give it the benefit of the doubt, more ambiguous.
It's certainly a good time for sci-fi classics coming to the screen. In HBO's sci-fi western, there's a simple and shimano saint direct tension: when are the robots going to flip out? See -- that's how it creeps up on you. Those bits don't actually look so bad... It's a well-made and thought-provoking adaptation, even if it could be a little braver. The Handmaid's Tale already raised the bar for TV (and scored a hit for Hulu).
By drawing on all the book's various themes, the TV adaptation certainly throws up interesting questions and subtexts.
It's even pretty funny. Who needs freedom when you can have neon rave orgies? At least it's easier to follow than Westworld's brain-wrecking timelines. When I first read Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's famous 1932 novel, I expected something fusty and old-fashioned.
Everyone is very happy. Denis Villeneuve's take on Dune is coming soon, as is Apple TV's epic version of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, and Brave New World feels like a curtain raiser for those forthcoming adaptations.
I mean, who needs privacy when you can have an augmented reality contact lens?
In the first half of the season, John is caught up in by events, storm-tossed by the actions and agendas of others, his motivations as blank as his expression. Sure, it's not as bold or as audacious or as declarative as other recent highbrow sci-fi shows, but that isn't a bad thing.
That's reflected in the show's actual floors, and walls and clothes.
But that also makes it a little unfocused. It's a fun contrast, but once again the nebulous premise means Brave New World lacks the excitement sizzling from the screen in Westworld.
