Mortal Engines: Cities Rolling for Resources
By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** Based on a children's book by British author Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines hit the cinemas last December. It is certainly interesting as a piece of European science fiction as it shows far future London and other cities, the cities on wheels known as the Traction Cities in the book, as resource-devouring monstrous structures which you can't help but think metropolises actually are, as we speak. The greed of cities that persists even in the post-apocalypse is clearly a bit of an anti-Capitalist theme here (the scenes from the movie, of people cheering as London captures Salzhaken or as it meets the Capitalist Frontier in the Shield Wall of Shan Guo, may remind one of a shareholder meeting where the juicy takeover of another company is on the agenda). London, rolling, with St. Paul's on top The idea is thus serious enough and regardless of Brexit it is Euro...