Tag: dystopia
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Under the Eye: “Unfit”
I wonder if this is Gilead right here. Three Aunts at a table with a Lazy Susan spinning around. Busy-bodies in con-fab naming names, and discussing “trouble” handmaids like Ofjoseph. This might be Gilead. Lydia sits in concert with other middle-aged women of her ilk with their files and their folders. Despite this “revelation,” this…
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“Blessed Be The Fruit: A Look Back at Handmaid’s Tale’s First Season”
“Blessed Be The Fruit: A Look Back at Handmaid’s Tale’s First Season” I tend to get sucked into heated arguments on Facebook, I don’t know why. But this was so oddly prescient. In the wake of Trump ending the Iran Deal, side-note: the Media swearing up and down the Iranian Government was just a bunch…
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Under the Eye: “The Bridge”
“The Bridge” It’s nice that we have these little rituals, isn’t it? All the handmaids gather outside another palatial, stolen home. We have a prisoner–sorry–baby exchange between Janine (“Ofwarren”) for our little role-play, and the thieves of her baby, a Commander and his wife (not worthy of names in my book) and it becomes apparent…
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Under the Eye: “Late”
“Late” We exist in a world where men with machine guns stand on every street corner and watch you. Where women are bound and gagged so they cannot move or speak. June tells us she was asleep when there were “temporary” inconveniences. When the Constitution was “suspended.” When women en masse were denied their jobs…
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“Blade Runner, 1982”
“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.” Blade Runner, 1982 (Harrison Ford), The Ladd Company I knew I had to end my Vintage Cable Box series with, what I regard to be, one of the greatest movies ever made. Nothing can prepare you for Blade…
Misadventures in Blissville 