George Orwell had the good fortune -- or misfortune, depending on your perspective -- of being an honest man in an exceptionally dishonest time. The world has always been filled with liars, of course...
The Dormant Beast is a near-future story, which is to say, harsh, grubby, and convoluted. Bilal gives us the now-mandatory Blade Runner anticipations of days to come, the mise-en-scene a politically dystopian automobile graveyard draped with wiring and rife with multinational neon, omnipresent logos, and endless flickering security cameras and computer screens....
