Division 19 (2019) (original) (raw)
2039. Jails have been turned into online portals where the public gets to choose what prisoners eat, wear, watch and who they fight. So successful is Panopticon TV, it is about to be rolled out to a whole town, providing subscribers even more choice.
2039. Jails have been turned into online portals where the public gets to choose what prisoners eat, wear, watch and who they fight. So successful is Panopticon TV, it is about to be rolled out to a whole town, providing subscribers even more choice. (less)
Director: S.A. Halewood
Starring: Linus Roache, Alison Doody, Jamie Draven, Lotte Verbeek
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Review by Brian Orndorf, April 4, 2019
5 / 10
For �Division 19,� writer/director S.A. Halewood tries to extrapolate out current woes with celebrity and surveillance, taking viewers to the futureworld of 2039, where, according to the opening of the film, anonymity is a crime. We�re immersed in a society where everything is available for study, with consent or not, making daily life a commitment to voyeurism, which has turned into the national pastime. Halewood doesn�t go cute with the material, imagining a bleak community of submissive people and the rebellion that�s taking shape in the shadows. She has plenty there for a reasonably engros ...read more...
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