Day 30: The Handmaid's Tale

I felt obligated to watch something written by Harold Pinter after his recent death. I think I could have made a better choice. In theory this kind of movie works for me, future dystopias are some of my favorites. Be it nuclear war, fascism, plague, zombie advent, or robot holocaust, I'm all over it. This one however, fell short.

I think it's amusing how often future dystopias have their citizens dressing in uniforms, like it's some private school gone horribly wrong. The security forces all wear black, head to toe, and drive black cars with black trim and black wheelcovers, just in case you didn't get the point. The "handmaids" wear red, and the wealthy wives who are to receive their infants all wear blue - some sort of modified futuristic Jackie O number with a white pearl necklace and pillbox hat. Why you'd make even the ruling elite dress in uniforms is beyond me. Perhaps to show how misogynistic the regime was, that even the rich wives were reduced to wearing standard issue fashions?

Anyway, for a better futuristic dystopia about human sterility, see "Children of Men". Also, if you haven't seen Children of Men, see Children of Men. It's pretty great.