The Alton Estate has featured as a film and television location, Fahrenheit 451 ( 1966 ) used some of the estate as its backdrop for a bleak dystopian society of the future, and Thames Television's film division Euston Films used the Danebury Avenue area of the estate to film the opening scene's of Sweeney 2 ( 1978 )-the sequel to the film Sweeney!

Kitano plays Kitano in Battle Royale ( 2000 ), a controversial Japanese blockbuster set in a bleak dystopian future where a group of teenagers are randomly selected each year to eliminate each other on a deserted island.

Retro-futurism is not universally optimistic, and when its points of reference touch on gloomy periods like World War II, or the paranoia of the Cold War, it may itself become bleak and dystopian.

The album was critically acclaimed, and the bleak, dystopian nature of both the lyrics and music were compared by UK music journalists to such groups as Killing Joke, Live Skull, Gang of Four, and early Sonic Youth.

Monarch was an oppressive tyrant from a bleak, dystopian Earth fifty years in the future.

Monarch was an oppressive tyrant from a bleak, dystopian Earth fifty years in the future.

It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;

The song's bleak lyrics were explained by Marker as a mockery of the angsty " wearing your heart on your sleeve thing " themes prevalent in mid-1990s alternative rock songs, as well as a self-deprecating reference to Garbage's own dark lyrics, with Manson explaining that the song was " a dig at ourselves because we like records that don't make us feel very happy, and at this so-called ' alternative ' scene of ' we're so weird and more wonderful than everybody else '".

Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots ( 1981 ), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world.

Trenchard's requests were rejected by his Colonel, and when the Viceroy Lord Curzon, who was concerned about the drain of leaders to South Africa, banned the dispatch of any further officers, Trenchard's prospects for seeing action looked bleak.

Although none of his work was deemed subversive enough to warrant action by the Nazis, many of his peers were arrested and interned, and his future as an author under the Nazi regime looked bleak.

Although most of the Falklands War took place in the Falkland Islands themselves, on hilltops in semi-Arctic conditions, during the earlier stages of the war, there was some action in the bleak mountainous island of South Georgia.

The concluding chapters portray the 1998 of the original timeline as a bleak, failing world, the intensified ecological disaster taking a noticeable toll on the human way of life.

" Charged with taking a bleak deterministic view, she retorts, " antihumanist, yes ; inhuman, no ... the truly determined subject is he who is not aware of the discursive formations that determine him ".

As everything looks bleak, however, the tubercular Hohannes exchanges documents with Stavros, allowing him to enter America in Hohannes ' place.

It is a bleak, semi-forested, wind-swept place that owes its name to nearby piles of slag or tailings, called scoria, the detritus of long-played-out iron mines in the Guadarrama.

s ' lum ae ) meaning " it is a bleak or destitute place.

Lilja lives a fairly bleak life with her mother in a run down apartment block in a squalid, poor town in an unnamed former republic of the Soviet Union ( principal filming took place in Paldiski, Estonia ).

They were allocated on the " bleak basis " of seniority ; New Zealand civil servant Gerald Hensley recalled that when he visited Rewi Alley in 1973 Alley was living in the best downstairs front apartment which had been allocated to Strong until she died, at which time Alley moved into it and everyone else moved on one place.

Since Akito believed that the world was a cruel, bleak place in which unconditional love did not exist outside of the Zodiac bonds, she also believed that Tohru would eventually end up rejecting the cursed Sohmas, causing them to return broken hearted to her side.

( all James Cameron films from 1986 through 1994 deal with nuclear explosions ); Red Dawn ( film, directed by John Milius ) a Soviet / Cuban invasion follows a surprise limited nuclear strike on the US ( 1984 ), Mad Max ( 3 films, 1979 – 1985 ), a loner Australian highway patrolman wanders a bleak violent post apocalyptic wasteland.

He is mildly disparaging of the novel, saying ; " It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster — the period of soya beans and Basic English — and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful.

The novel was also adapted as a play by Sean O ' Connor ( producer ) in 2001 and returned the story to its original British setting and bleak ending.

The novel takes its inspiration from South Africa's contemporary social and political conflict, and offers a bleak look at the country.

Some of Lewis's contemporaries said the novel was too bleak, even humorless, in its conveyance of ignorant small-town life and people.

" A paperback copy of William H. Gass ' controversial novel The Tunnel ( novel ) | The Tunnel on top of two of his collections of essays: " Habitations of the Word " and " The World Within the Word " Critical responses to The Tunnel upon its release included Robert Kelly's declaration that it was an " infuriating and offensive masterpiece ," and Steven Moore's claim that it was ” a stupendous achievement and obviously one of the greatest novels of the century .” Michael Silverblatt of the Los Angeles Times wrote in his review of the novel: " A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair.

The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald was conceiving and working on the book, were certainly the darkest years of his life, and accordingly, the novel has its bleak elements.

The novel might have been unremittingly bleak if it weren't for the moral center provided by Faulkner, who is a genuinely likable guy.

In 1996 Winterbottom adapted his favourite novel, Thomas Hardy's bleak classic Jude the Obscure, the tale of forbidden love between two cousins which had so scandalized British society on its release in 1895 that Hardy gave up novel-writing.

By July 1, six weeks from now, motel-keepers all over the nation will, by 6 p.m., be switching on that bleak -- to motorists -- sign, `` No Vacancy ''.

" He claimed that " it actually was coined to describe the guitars-heavy, downtuned, bleak, harsh riffing guitars ' grind ', so that's what the genre was described as, by the musicians who were its innovators proponents.

The " Britpop movement pre-empted by The Stone Roses and spearheaded by groups like Oasis, Suede and Blur, drew heavily from Morrissey's portrayal of and nostalgia for a bleak urban England of the past.

But her violent death marks the start of an increasingly bleak and violent chain of events ( influenced by co-writer Nick Davies ' documentary book Dark Heart ) which in spite of the director's denial that the film had " serious parallels " to Shakespeare's play, actually mirror aspects of its plot closely.

Particularly in the early years of his career, this freedom led to a great diversity in his output, which ranges from the " snarling " satire of Michaelmas Term ( performed by the Children of Paul's ) to the bleak intrigues of The Revenger's Tragedy ( performed by the King's Men ), assuming he is the author of the latter.

Despite the bleak view in the strip, McCay's work was so popular that he was hired by William Randolph Hearst in 1911 with a star's salary.

* Musician Bruce Springsteen's bleak album Nebraska was inspired in part by A People's History.

" In this bleak cynicism about political ideas and political life, The Roman Revolution strongly resembled another controversial historical masterwork, The Structure of English Politics at the Accession of George III, published in 1930 by the specialist in eighteenth-century British political history, Sir Lewis B. Namier.

These adversities contributed to Finzi's bleak outlook on life, but he found solace in the poetry of Thomas Traherne and his favourite, Thomas Hardy, whose poems, as well as those by Christina Rossetti, he began to set to music.

Seeming to blend the refined music of his early solo work with the threatening music that came later, it is by any standard a bleak, harrowing record.

The bleak time was partly spelled by four-handed piano duets with his mother and by his strong friendship with Reg DuValle, black bandleader and pianist known as " the elder statesman of Indiana jazz " and " the Rhythm King ", who taught him piano jazz improvisation.

Writing in The Times, Richard Morrison stated that " even by the bleak standards of Sixties architecture, Euston is one of the nastiest concrete boxes in London: devoid of any decorative merit ; seemingly concocted to induce maximum angst among passengers ; and a blight on surrounding streets.

" The message — that no matter how bleak the situation seemed, the struggle would " soon be over " — propelled the song to the status of an anthem, recorded by many of the leading artists of the era.

The poem Der Heideknabe (" The Heath Lad ") from the year 1844 by Friedrich Hebbel stresses the unearthly atmosphere and the bleak solitude of the heaths:

The head of the valley, whose upper portion is known as Teesdale, has a desolate grandeur, surrounded by hills, some exceeding 2500 feet ( 762 m ), and bleak moorland.

His tendency to be ' boring ' and to look on the bleak side of things are mocked by his mates, but they retain some affection for him.

On their way back to the hard line, which serves as the exit for " red pills " to leave The Matrix, the crew of Morpheus's ship is betrayed by Cypher, a " red pill " who seeks to return to the Matrix to escape the bleak, harsh life lived outside the Matrix.

The music of slowcore artists is generally characterized by bleak lyrics, downbeat melodies, slower tempos and minimalist arrangements.

The Purgatorio movement ( originally entitled Purgatorio oder Inferno — Purgatory or Hell — but the word " Inferno " was struck out ) is a brief vignette presenting a struggle between alternately bleak and carefree melodies with a perpetuum mobile accompaniment, that are soon subverted by a diabolical undercurrent of more cynical music.

Crumbling and covered with litter and graffiti, everything is in a state of bleak decay, overlit by the neon signs of trashy consumer capitalism.