A Salford crime lord known as 'Vlad the Impaler' is among those to be jailed in Greater Manchester this week.
23.08.2023 - 18:33 / variety.com
Jessica Kiang According to Hungarian animator duo Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó, we have only a century until the dessicated, infertile dystopia of their animated festival hit “White Plastic Sky” becomes our reality. A few years ago, this grave and wistful film’s 2123 setting would have seemed hyperbolic, but the rapidity with which we seem to be hurtling toward environmental collapse recently makes its parched landscapes — it could be the surface of Mars but for the rusted hulls of ships jutting up like tombstones from arid lakebeds — seem only a mild exaggeration of the wastelands our literal grandchildren might have to call home.
Mirroring an animation style in which the somnolent characters are less expressive than the richly detailed, vanishing-point backgrounds however, it is harder to believe in Bánóczki and Szabó’s vision of transformation undergone in the human psyche in an equivalent time frame. In this 2123, life can only be supported in cities — here Budapest — encased in massive domes, and even then resources are so scarce that a mandatory 50-year limit has been placed on human life.
At that age, people are rounded up to undergo a biological intervention that turns them into trees which bear edible leaves that can then nourish the next generation of humans. The science, though outlandish, feels oddly plausible, doubtless down to the scrupulous research into current trends in biochemistry and environmental engineering that went into the screenplay (which was co-written by the directors).
But the apparent docility of the population is another matter. Considering we’ve just experienced a global crisis during which a not insignificant segment felt indignantly oppressed at the prospect of having to wear a
.A Salford crime lord known as 'Vlad the Impaler' is among those to be jailed in Greater Manchester this week.
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