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Like any genre, science fiction can benefit from filmmakers who are willing to push boundaries or, at the very least, not sugarcoat things. Sci-fi stories often explore futures – bleak or otherwise – and navigate humanity’s relationship to technology, with such narratives often needing to touch upon things like violence, sexuality, inhumanity, and various other things that might not be suitable for all ages.
Directed by the Spierig brothers, Predestination is also the kind of film where going into why it has an R-rating could lead to giving certain things away. But if it’s gone under your radar, you ought to give it a shot, as it uses time-travel conventions in interesting ways and is also very well-acted, particularly by its lead stars, Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook.
It gets pretty close, with a bleak and disturbing semi-dystopian alternate reality, and a story about a black telemarketer whose new job turns out to present moral challenges while thrusting him into an unusual and twisted world. Sorry to Bother You might alarm and unnerve even those expecting something darkly satirical, but it’s a trip worth taking.
Release Date June 8, 2012 Director Ridley Scott Cast Noomi Rapace , Michael Fassbender , Charlize Theron , Idris Elba , Guy Pearce , Logan Marshall-Green Runtime 124 6 'Under the Skin' Director: Jonathan Glazer If anything, one might be surprised that Under the Skin is only R-rated, as it feels like it could’ve almost qualified for an NC-17 rating.
It’s also an impressively epic and beautiful-looking movie, building tastefully on the first movie – released 35 years earlier – and bringing back some characters from that film without overly relying on them. Just as Prometheus has lessons to teach on how to approach a sci-fi prequel, so too does Blade Runner 2049 display decisions that can be made if someone wants to tackle a legacy sequel .
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