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1854 – The Djinn (2021)

timespace coordinates: fall of 1989, US

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The Djinn is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed and written by David Charbonier and Justin Powell. The film stars  Ezra Dewey as a mute boy trapped in his apartment with a sinister monster when he makes a wish to fulfill his heart’s greatest desire.

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1837 – Snowpiercer: Season 2 (2021)

timespace coordinates: 2021, seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland 

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Snowpiercer (TV Series 2020-)

Snowpiercer (2013)

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1820 – Brave New World (2020 TV series)

timespace coordinates: (post-apocalyptic) New London / The Savage Lands (amusement park) The series “imagines an utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamyprivacymoneyfamily and history itself.” In an update of the original novel, an artificial intelligence system named Indra also connects citizens via a wireless network.

Brave New World is an American social science fiction drama series. It is loosely based on the classic novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley. It premiered on the NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock on July 15, 2020, In October 2020, the series was canceled after one season. (wiki)

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1699 – Groundhog Day (1993)

timespace coordinates: February 2, 1992  Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

Groundhog Day is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Harold Ramis. It stars Bill MurrayAndie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Murray portrays Phil Connors, a cynical TV weatherman covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, who becomes trapped in a time loop forcing him to relive February 2 repeatedly.

In the years since its release, the film has grown in esteem and is often considered to be among the greatest films of the 1990s and one of the greatest comedy films of all time. The film has been analyzed as a religious allegory by Buddhists, Christians, and Jews, who each see a deeper philosophical meaning in the film’s story. (wiki)

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1697 – Tenet (2020)

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Tenet is a 2020 action-thriller and science fiction film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. A co-production between the United Kingdom and United States, it stars John David WashingtonRobert PattinsonElizabeth Debicki and Kenneth Branagh. The plot follows a secret agent (Washington) as he manipulates the flow of time to prevent World War III. (wiki)

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1677 – The Reader (2008)

timespace coordinates: Berlin, 1995 >> Neustadt West Germany, 1958

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The Reader is a 2008 romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by David Hare, based on the 1995 German (partly autobiographical) novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. It stars Kate WinsletRalph Fiennes, and David Kross. It was the last film for producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died prior to its release.

The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a 15-year-old in 1958, has an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz. She disappears only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp.  (wiki)

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1658 – A Touch of Sin 天注定 (2013)

timespace coordinates: around 2001-2013, inspired by precise recent events in contemporary China, its vignettes take place in vastly different settings from bustling southern metropolis of Guangzhou and Dongguan to the more rural townships in the province of Shanxi.

directed by Zhangke Jia

“The film draws on the history of wuxia stories. The title in Chinese, 天注定 (Tian zhuding) is literally translated as “heavenly fate” or “fated doom,” while its English title is a reference to King Hu‘s 1971 action epic A Touch of Zen, one of the most influential wuxia films.

It revolves around four threads set in vastly different geographical and social milieus across modern-day China.

The stories are loosely based on:

  1. Hu Wenhai 胡文海 (2001)
  2. Zhou Kehua (2004-2012)
  3. Deng Yujiao incident (2009)
  4. Foxconn suicides (2007-2013)

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