1975 · dystopia · corporate · sport
Rollerball
Directed by Norman Jewison2h 5m1975
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Our read: Rollerball (1975) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive dystopia · corporate · sport entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme dystopia / corporate, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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