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A very good one.....this was well written and strange.
 


Yeah a very nice read....even if you kind of had the feeling that the dirt and grime kept pouring out from the pages and on to your fingers while reading it.

Apparently inspired by Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, another novel that probably merits mentioning here.
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Oh, and here's another book that is actually well worth reading, despite the later weirdness of at least one of the authors.
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When I get my dystopia novel up, will any of you read it (or at least write nice things) when I whore myself here?
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^ I might if it's a Nineteen-Eighty Whore[ish] story.

And thanks to people for the recs so far.  Much to look for.  Right now I'm in the mood for black comedyish/ really quirky dystopian[ish], or not so dystopian, works.

One of my favourite recent films I've seen that  I really liked was Branded (has a bad rating at imdb).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5p7l1hNuQ

It's a bit of The how to Get Ahead in Advertising kind of thing.

Another fairly recent favourite of mine was One Point Zero:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw3V_VnRoaA

I'd love to find some more films of the Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and Brazil ilk.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

^ I might if it's a Nineteen-Eighty Whore[ish] story.

And thanks to people for the recs so far.  Much to look for.  Right now I'm in the mood for black comedyish/ really quirky dystopian[ish], or not so dystopian, works.

One of my favourite recent films I've seen that  I really liked was Branded (has a bad rating at imdb).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5p7l1hNuQ

It's a bit of The how to Get Ahead in Advertising kind of thing.

Another fairly recent favourite of mine was One Point Zero:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw3V_VnRoaA

I'd love to find some more films of the Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and Brazil ilk.

 
You might find the new sci-fi television series 'Defiance' interesting....it has some dystopian and even 'steam punk' elements imo.
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I'd love to find some more films of the Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and Brazil ilk.




I don't know how similar one might say it is, but the 1997 flick CUBE does offer a rather unreal experience in a highly unusual escape from the prison scenario.






Eden Log also seems promising in that unreal kind of feeling way





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Don't know why I failed to respond before, but better late than never. Saw Cube when it was still quite a recent film, and seen the sequels, but I haven't seen Eden Log.

Seen many good ones since I made this topic.

One of my favourite more modern ones is High-Rise, which I have brought up in other threads.
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interesting topic.. there has been one movie  that really set me back a loop.  Made me go WTF and I literally spent days, weeks with this movie at the forefront of my consciousness.  Coincidently the only modern movie I put in my top 10 alltime favs.

but that isn't the thread for that.. it is for the other other media.

There was a book that did the same for me.  Completely emotionally shattering experience to read, and spent days, weeks and I couldn't get out of the forefront of my consciousness what I had read.  

Cormac's The Road.  A simply shattering emotional experience to read.. yet one could not put it down. I remember a friend gave it to me to read.  I started reading it at work, was so...  emotionally invested I-turned my work phone off and parked the work van  in a cul-de-sac and read till quiting time, got back home and hardly with a word to Raff I plopped down on the couch and read until I finished the book.  


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The Road is really powerful -- one of the best and most harrowing novels that I have read. I did get nightmares for some time after reading it. My wife got me to read it after she finished reading it as she thought the father/son relationship would make it all the more poignant to me. I read it one sitting too.

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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

The Road is really powerful -- one of the best and most harrowing novels that I have read. I did get nightmares for some time after reading it. My wife got me to read it after she finished reading it as she thought the father/son relationship would make it all the more poignant to me. I read it one sitting too.
I loved the book and the movie was just as jarring. Viggo Mortensen is really good in it. 

I'm not sure how many of you saw this movie, but it's a New Zealand produced time travel movie called The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey.

The movie takes place during the Black Death in 14th century Cumbria (northwest England), and involves a time travel quest to the 20th century in order to save a village doomed by the plague. Great use of black and white to mirror the dreary plague years of the 14th century, changing to vibrant color (borrowed from medieval stained glass and the painted miniatures found in period Books of Hours) and an almost Bosch-like feel as the villagers strive in a strange land to fulfill their mission.

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