Geklonte Zukunft (TV Movie 1998)

Geklonte Zukunft: Directed by Leslie Libman, Larry Williams. With Peter Gallagher, Leonard Nimoy, Tim Guinee, Rya Kihlstedt. In a futuristic totalitarian utopian society, babies are created through genetic engineering, everyone has a predestined place in society and their minds are conditioned to follow the rules. A tragic outsider jeopardizes the status quo.

“BRAVE NEW WORLD is one of many classic novels I have never got round to reading . Why don`t you read classic novels Theo ? Because I usually stay up half the night watching shows like OZ on late night televisionu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003enAnd speaking of OZ the directors of this TVM Leslie Libman u0026amp; Larry Williams directed one of the outstanding episodes of the series `Straight Life` which fans will remember was themed around drug taking . Well I guess the directors deserve some faint praise for making everything watchable . If I remember correctly the 1980 mini series version of the book suffered badly from having all the characters dressed up in silver foil costumes like in an extremely bad B movie but here thankfully everyone dresses in an entirely sensible and recognisable manner . I guess too that there wasn`t much money awarded to the production hence Libman and Williams decided to make everything look like the present day , but wether it`s down to artistic grounds or funding at least we don`t see riduclous overdeveloped visions of what future cities may look like and if the future resembles a sexy soft core anthology series like HOTLINE then I`m all for it . Oh and do I get the feeling the U2 concerts of the 1990s had some influence here ?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003enUnfortunately it`s the script by Dan Mazur that seems to be at fault . As I said I`ve never read the book but everything seems skimmed over in such a haphazard and underdeveloped manner it`s almost impossible to understand the point the original novel might be trying to make . What were the wars about ? Why haven`t the Alpha society captured savages before etc ? There`s little in the way of backstory but enough backstory to make you realise it`s not been explained enough . But worst of all do I think Huxley`s ideas and subtext on eugenics has been sucessfully translated on screen ? No I don`t think it has , it doesn`t seem that the happiness found in utopian future is down to genetic engineering – it`s down to a drug called Soma . So Huxley advocated drug taking to be the answer to mankind reaching a higher state of being ? This also no doubt explains why the directors were hired due to their drugs orientated episode of OZu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn many ways this version of BRAVE NEW WORLD plays out like an episode of the classic BBC series BLAKE`S 7 , a series where the main recreational drug is also called Soma ( Bet you never knew that ) and just like all but the very worst episodes of BLAKE`S 7 this TVM is rather watchable but no doubt Huxley fans will detest it”