Remembering the original, Harold Pinter screen adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale

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@jhbadger

A lot of science fiction and fantasy movies made before the dominance of CGI are like this in that their settings are obviously real places with only a small bit of dressing to make them look futuristic/fantastical.

That sense of “it could be here” added to the impact of the 1990 version, IMO.