In a hostile world like the four-episode miniseries “The Architet” that premiered on Filmin, most color is absent. It is the different shades of gray that inhabit the urban environment. The public space is rectilinear and limited, even in terms of the time spent there — more than five minutes in the square involves buying a coffee from a girl carrying a backpack — and human interaction is scarce, or when it does exist, frigid. And distrust.
The future in which the events take place is reversed, and the characters are subject to a political, technological and spatial totalitarianism that leaves them no room for a healthy and compassionate socialization. They live in a kind of “nowhere” (the etymological meaning of the word dystopia) that we recognize from the founding work of the “We” genre by the Russian writer Zamyatin. A book written in 1920, which inspired the dystopia that followed. The most famous ones are “1984” by Orwell, or “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley.
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Salman Rushdie is a journalist and feature writer specialising in culture, politics, literature, and international affairs. He focuses on delivering clear, informative reporting that helps readers understand the people, events, and trends influencing today’s world.
