aphro-18240 Review of Brave New World

Brave New World (2020)

Brilliant Novel Will Last 100 years, This will be forgotten by Christmas

[4/10 · 18 August 2020]

The novel has stood the test of time with it's amazing depiction of a future where all are happy and have purpose within a cast system. No families, no parenting, and the conditioning, cloning and genetic manipulation of people and children. One of the book's great thought provocations is that despite The Brave New World going against all our 'Savage' instincts, it's the Brave new World that wins and cannot be argued against as a better way forward for society and people for their welfare and happiness. This adaptation ignores the whole point of the book including that dilemma and turns it into a badly scripted Logan's Run, but not as good. This series is a typical Hollywood caper where the great free capitalist ways win through revolution against an evil dystopia. it's better to be free to feel sadness and love than ignorantly happy and without worry. The characters have changed from the book into more stereotypical film and TV drama characters. Their flaws and the frustration that the reader felt towards them which made them interesting has gone out the window. I read the book this summer and greatly anticipated this drama. It's not all bad as a piece of TV, and as a Sci-Fi drama OK, but this would have been better to leave the novel and it's characters alone and make it only loosely based on BNW. This is not a reflection of the book at all, so as a consequence will not stand the test of time.