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Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.
The theme is pure Huxley: intelligent, open-minded man gets shipwrecked on a remote tropical island where the native population has managed to create a utopia. The man meets a variety of people over a period of days who explain Pala's (the name of the island) unique culture.
8 cze 2015 · The Island deliberately re-works utopian and dystopian images and tropes, and has clear generic relations to literary works such as George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
21 lip 2005 · “The Island” runs 136 minutes, but that’s not long for a double feature. The first half of Michael Bay’s new film is a spare, creepy science fiction parable, and then it shifts into a high-tech action picture.
Island is a 1962 novel by Aldous Huxley. It tells the story of Will Farnaby’s experience on an isolated island called Pala. The novel is written in third person limited omniscient point of view focused on Will’s perspective.
18 lut 2010 · Shutter Island addresses some powerful, disturbing concepts but, despite effective performances by the leads, the movie's psychological impact is minimal. It doesn't pack the powerhouse punch one has come to expect from Scorsese.
Directed by Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island is adapted from the best selling novel of the same name written by Dennis Lehane ("Mystic River/Gone Baby Gone"). It finds the talented director getting closer to horror than at any point in his career, it also finds him arguably over cooking his grits.
