Seth Larney’s indie sci-fi feature debut depicts a world in which oxygen is a limited commodity and the world is ravaged by the effects of anthropogenic climate change. But while its ultimately hopeful ecological message is laudable, Bronwyn Lovell finds that the film’s depiction of women – and gender roles in the world of the future – remains captive to the limited perspective of the science fiction genre’s male-dominated past.
Seth Larney’s 2020 science fiction thriller 2067 begins amid what might be the climax of another film: in the last city on Earth, a nuclear explosion is imminent, and mere seconds remain to prevent catastrophe. And yet, the characters are not alarmed. In this apocalyptic near-future vision of a time when Earth’s plant life is extinct and synthetic oxygen has…
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Metro (Digital) - 1 Issue, No. 208