• z3rOR0ne
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    1 year ago

    Yes, but is it inside a Brutalist monolith concrete building with a single small slit of a window? I get what you’re saying, but my point in regards to Vs initial apartment is that despite it’s small niceties, the harshness of the world that exists just right outside their door is mlre prison like than almost all modern 1st world apartments today.

    I love the gig where you have to comfort and console your neighbor, Barry, because you get to see that his apartment is slightly smaller, slightly lower scale than yours, but more or less the same.

    A similar portrayal can be seen in the apartment of K in Blade Runner 2049. Sure the interiors are nicer than some, but the apartments, to me, feel like the architects intended to treat the tenants like prisoners with nicer digs than actual prisoners. Space efficient to the point of just barely not cramped. Nice enough that initially you don’t complain. Isolated enough that you don’t connect with your neighbors.

    Grant you there are community spaces like the boxing gym, but again, it reminds me of a prison gym mainly because of the Brutalist concrete foundation of the building.

    Youtuber Dami Lee does a much better job breaking down Cyberpunk style architecture than I ever could. Id highly recommend you check out her video on the subject.