Brave New World
- IMDb link: 0080468
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (1,258 votes) Search
- Genres: Sci-Fi, Drama
- Director: Bud Cort, Burt Brinckerhoff
- Cast: Keir Dullea, Ron O'Neal, Julie Cobb and others
- Release date: 7 Mar 1980
- Release year: 1980
- Runtime: 180 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: male protagonist, psychotronic film, fictional drug, repression, drugs, cloning, future, pleasure, class society, sins of the father
Plot:
In a future society based on pleasure without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual sex, now called "engaging", is strongly encouraged. Everyone is kept happy with a legal drug, soma. People are hatched and cloned on conveyor belts to meet the requirements of five different social classes, from ruling Alphas to robot-like Epsilons. Bernard Marx is a different Alpha male with an inclination to thinking. He and a girl called Lenina Disney go visit a reservation of "savages", meet a handsome young man named John, and bring him back to "civilization". John turns out to be the son of the director of the cloning authority, which causes a scandal and makes John a celebrity freak. He falls in love with Lenina, but his desire is ruined by his antiquated sexual morale derived from reading Shakespeare. He hates the over-social but anti-emotional civilization, asks to be sent to live in isolation, and gets a job as a lighthouse guard, but even there he can't forget Lenina or escape his celebrity status.
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