Wednesday, June 24th, 2020

2020/068: Chosen Spirits -- Samit Basu
'Dystopia is pornographic, Olamina. You see it and shiver but it's also kind of fun because it's happening somewhere else, to someone else, you know? It requires distance. Some of us are actually sitting in the fucking middle of it and we may never learn to care in time. This isn’t dystopia. This is reality.’ [loc. 2347]


Delhi, the near future: Joey (Bijoyini Roy) is an Associate Reality Controller, running the Flow (live, curated, multichannel videostream) of Indi, a popular entertainment Icon who also happens to be her ex. She hires Rudra, a family friend who's being pressured into abetting his family's exploitative concerns: this sparks a chain of events that open Joey's eyes to the inequity, corruption and superficiality of the society in which she lives.no spoilers )

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