Tag: Major Genre: social realism

Blade Runner 2049. Dir. Denis Villeneuve. Alcon Entertainment. 2017.

Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) transports us to a dystopian earth, where humans and replicants, bio-engineered humans used for slave labour, live side by side. There is a clear dichotomy within the dystopia since replicants’ entire existence is based on the premise that they are genetically coded to obey orders, rendering them docile slaves,…

18th January 2022
God’s Own Country. Dir. Francis Lee. Picturehouse Entertainment. 2017.

As a film which centers around a farming family, God’s Own Country is inseparable from animal life. Francis Lee sets the 2017 rural drama during the lambing season at a farm, thus crafting a display of the distress caused by animal breeding and the inevitable horror of animal death. Customary to the Social Realist tradition,…

16th January 2022
The Lion King. Dir. Jon Favreau. Walt Disney Pictures and Fairview entertainment. 2019.

Jon Favreau’s 2019 recreation of The Lion King is something David Attenborough would be proud of, or is it? Disney seems to have a habit of reproducing the same stories, and after 25 years that’s just what they did with their animated animal take on Hamlet. Favreau’s CGI Lion King tells the story of a…

14th January 2022

Blade Runner 2049. Dir. Denis Villeneuve. Alcon Entertainment. 2017.