Year: 2009
Directors: Roland Vranik
Writers: Roland Vranik / András Barta
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 7 out of 10
[Editor's note: We also have another review Rick wrote from August of 2009 here]
Post-apocalyptic worlds are often of familiar type – dusty wasteland, warring tribes and a desperate struggle for survival. While anyone who has read The Road or played Fallout 3 will know this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's a shame that the broad possibilities the genre opens up have been pushed out by this convention. Transmission harks back to a time when authors like Jg Ballard and John Wyndham took a What If? approach, removing or adding factors that send society on a new course, exploring the possibilities thrown up on the way. Furthermore it does so with real style.
The premise of Transmission is simple at first glance: data can no longer be transmitted. There is no TV, no radio, no computers. People charge batteries from makeshift generators, but there is no national grid.
Directors: Roland Vranik
Writers: Roland Vranik / András Barta
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 7 out of 10
[Editor's note: We also have another review Rick wrote from August of 2009 here]
Post-apocalyptic worlds are often of familiar type – dusty wasteland, warring tribes and a desperate struggle for survival. While anyone who has read The Road or played Fallout 3 will know this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's a shame that the broad possibilities the genre opens up have been pushed out by this convention. Transmission harks back to a time when authors like Jg Ballard and John Wyndham took a What If? approach, removing or adding factors that send society on a new course, exploring the possibilities thrown up on the way. Furthermore it does so with real style.
The premise of Transmission is simple at first glance: data can no longer be transmitted. There is no TV, no radio, no computers. People charge batteries from makeshift generators, but there is no national grid.
- 5/4/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Year: 2009
Directors: Roland Vranik
Writers: Roland Vranik / András Barta
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 8 out of 10
Transmission: On
Ever wonder what it might be like to live in a world where no computer screens or TV monitors work? Ahh, you’re thinking – a snap. Who needs that stuff, anyway? Surprise… you’re going back to a basically agrarian lifestyle. And it’s not as much fun as you’d think. It could, in fact, drive you crazy.
And that’s the basis of Adás (literal translation: Transmission), a very odd little post-apocalyptic effort from Hungary, written by András Barta and Roland Vranik, who also directed. Transmission follows the unusual adventures of three brothers – Henrik, Vilmos and Ottó – as they try to adjust to this new communication-free environment.
And an odd place it is. Some things work, others don’t. There’s no electricity because power plants run on computers.
Directors: Roland Vranik
Writers: Roland Vranik / András Barta
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 8 out of 10
Transmission: On
Ever wonder what it might be like to live in a world where no computer screens or TV monitors work? Ahh, you’re thinking – a snap. Who needs that stuff, anyway? Surprise… you’re going back to a basically agrarian lifestyle. And it’s not as much fun as you’d think. It could, in fact, drive you crazy.
And that’s the basis of Adás (literal translation: Transmission), a very odd little post-apocalyptic effort from Hungary, written by András Barta and Roland Vranik, who also directed. Transmission follows the unusual adventures of three brothers – Henrik, Vilmos and Ottó – as they try to adjust to this new communication-free environment.
And an odd place it is. Some things work, others don’t. There’s no electricity because power plants run on computers.
- 8/20/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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