Review: White Plastic Sky, Bodies, 65

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This trio of reviews came as part of “Couch University,” a column I write for Delano. This was a special all-sf entry.

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Native to this premise is a deeply interesting quagmire of climate politics: can a government justify killing its 50-year-olds in exchange for the collective survival of the city? Like any good science fiction, White Plastic Sky promises to take relevant issues–the ethics of self-sacrifice, the fight for resources, the reach of government during emergency conditions–and refract them through a prism of worldbuilding whereby we can examine them like brand new artworks. The film starts off more or less perfectly, adding to its compelling premise an exciting atmosphere: the claustrophobia of being trapped under a dome with an authoritarian government.

But the screenwriters surprise us…