fable

Race isn’t his subject, though it’s a compounding factor in his extreme alienation, which Booth chooses to examine in the universal terms of a modern fable, unlimited by demographic or diagnostic categories.

It reads almost like a fable about the dangers AI poses, especially when local communities are targeted.

“Megalopolis,” dubbed a “Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America,” premiered at Cannes in May and comes to theaters Sept. 27.

Having a pet crocodile in the backyard sounds like a far-fetched Australian fable – like riding kangaroos to school or the existence of drop bears.

There are explanations without meaning: Its space station death trap is divided between two sides, one called Romulus and the other Remus after Rome’s foundational fable, without leaning into the why of it.