![]() ![]() ![]() Feeling a desire for companionship, he purchases a new operating system upgrade that includes a virtual assistant who names herself Samantha. ![]() Theodore is great at other people's issues, but not his own, and has been delaying signing his divorce papers for quite some time. The quaintly named Theodore Twombly (played by Joaquin Phoenix) is a lonely introvert who works for a business that writes letters for people who are unable to express themselves emotionally. Her, Spike Jonze's 2013 sci-fi romance, is a remarkably drama-free film compared to others in its genre with similar premises or themes. OK, boomer, we get it, you think we're on our phones too much. On top of that, there is the usual scorn heaped upon the younger generations and their devotion to the future. We're now always online with devices that give us the world at our fingers if we just sign away all our personal data to a nameless corporation that will use it for whatever it pleases. It's not hard to see why the astounding technical advances of the past few decades have left us all a bit on edge. As Danny Lavery famously wrote in a tweet on Black Mirror pitches for The Toast: What if phones but too much? We see many of the same markers of the badness of a future run amok in such stories: evil governments oppressing the people archaic caste systems endless surveillance and, of course, technology gone too far. Even the most glowing utopian futures depicted in pop culture tend to quickly give way to problems or are exposed as secret nightmares to keep an audience's attention hooked. As is obvious from its very definition, you don't see a lot of stories set in hellish futures where people live mundane lives in a state of content bliss. Send us feedback about these examples.Dystopia is all about drama. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'drama.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 20 July 2023 See More Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023 The main source of tension fueling tonight’s challenge is not inter-designer drama, but the self-doubt some particularly barbed comments from the judges has wrought. Time, 21 July 2023 Yet for over seven decades, only two other major movie dramas about this epochal event emerged from a studio. Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2023 Gerwig modeled the scene of Barbie walking up the stars to Weird Barbie’s abode on a scene from Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell’s 1948 romantic drama The Red Shoes. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023 Sweet Magnolias is finally back, and while viewers of the Netflix drama settle in for a good, old-fashioned binge-watch, one question is bound to arise: Is Sweet Magnolias returning for season 4? - Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 21 July 2023 Less than a month after NBC announced that the hit drama would end after season 5, the network delivered a major clue about when the final set of episodes will air. USA TODAY, 22 July 2023 Nolan throws a lot into his IMAX-sized biography, from courtroom dramas to anti-communist fervor to academic in-fighting. Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2023 Full of drama and glamour, this book is practically calling out for the right Leo to pick it up. Recent Examples on the Web Among the films submitted from 16 countries and territories has been Malaysia’s undocumented immigrant drama Abang Adik, three times already an award-winner at international festivals, and again in the running for FIFF’s main prize. ![]()
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