Most Common Fears In Dystopian Films

Dystopian films are famous for presenting outrageous, typically end-of-the-world or post/pre-apocalyptic scenarios. While many viewers look at these films and see them as fun, sometimes scary adventures with their exciting, fascinatingly dangerous ideas, a closer look at the issues in these films reveals something about the societies they were made in. As a whole, there are certain things that we, as human beings and as a society, generally fear. While there may be general shared fears among individuals - things such as fear of heights, clowns or spiders - there are also more deep-seeded psychological or existential fears that reside within all of us. Such things could include the the body turning against itself, the fear of advancing technology, and the fear of death or that human existence as a whole will cease to exist someday. These types of social and existential anxieties are what make dystopian films so unique and so utterly fascinating.

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The thought of having our body's boundaries invaded by something foreign that we cannot control, or of losing the integrity of any organ, body part, or natural function. This fear is what gives zombie movies that fear factor that gets people rushing to see them. However there are more reasons people may fear the body than just the idea of the undead. In films like Never Let Me Go (2010), the main concern of the characters is that their bodies are created for the sole purpose of being taken apart; they have their organs taken from them so they can be donated to the wealthier people who pay for it. A similar theme comes up in The Island (2005), when the clones escape once they realize that their existence