The characters live under a powerful one-world government, and this government maintains itself primarily through propaganda. And, it makes the world of Brave New World rather appealing, actually.Īnd yet, despite all of these wonderful things, Brave New World still is a dystopia. Living out of wedlock is socially acceptable. There is no disease, and nobody is in poverty. Sex is no longer seen as some sort of taboo thing, nor is promiscuity regarded as “depraved.” There are no prohibitions on recreational drug use.

Thanks to new technology, people don’t age. Most people in Brave New World are generally happy. Rather, at ﬁrst glance, it appears to be a utopia. The thing that makes Brave New World interesting amongst dystopias is that, at ﬁrst glance, it doesn’t appear to be a dystopia at all.

This video contains Spanish subtitles not included in the original broadcast. Video uploaded to the Internet by YouTube user jj1980cn. (In any event, fans of the book are more likely to recommend the much cheaper-looking 1980 television rendition, which had also been produced for NBC.) I hold the opposite opinion: Despite my agreement that there is much in the movie that departs from Aldous Huxley’s original story, I consider this movie even better than the book. Because it departs in a number of ways from the book, various fans of the book have argued that this movie hardly does the book justice, and some even argue that this movie is not even worth watching. It was directed by Leslie Libman and Larry Williams, produced by Universal Television Entertainment, and originally broadcast on NBC. libertarian science ﬁction movie based on a book of the same title by Aldous Huxley. Brave New World Leslie Libman and Larry Williamsīrave New World (1998) is a made-for-T.V.

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