High-Rise (novel)
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High-Rise is a 1975 novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent chaos. As with
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High-Rise (film)
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High-Rise is a 2015 British science-fiction dystopian-thriller film directed by Ben Wheatley from a screenplay by Amy Jump, based on the 1975 novel of the same name by J. G. Ballard. The film stars To
High-Rise (novel)
…ways in which modern social and technological landscapes could alter the human psyche in provocative and hitherto unexplored ways. It was adapted into a film of the same name, in 2015, by director Ben Wheatley. Following his divorce, doctor and medical-school lecturer Robert Laing moves into his new apartment on the 25th…
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