"Out of the Unknown" has similarities to "The Twilight Zone", but with one-hour episodes, and more of a futuristic sci-fi focus. What these low-budget BBC productions lack in budget and special effects is more than made up for by the exceptional writing, fine acting, and uninhibited imagination.
JG Ballard, Britain's greatest sci-fi writer, created this odd (and oddly compelling) tale of a closed society on a multi-generational mission to another planet. The plot takes an unexpected twist midway through, and in the end, it is a meditation on very weighty subjects indeed: the power of belief, deception on a cosmic scale, duty to one's peers, the use and abuse of knowledge.
I came expecting a bit of amusing low-fi spaceship drama...and left with resounding theological questions that are worth pondering for some time! Thank you, JG Ballard and the beautiful freaks that put together "Out of the Unknown".
JG Ballard, Britain's greatest sci-fi writer, created this odd (and oddly compelling) tale of a closed society on a multi-generational mission to another planet. The plot takes an unexpected twist midway through, and in the end, it is a meditation on very weighty subjects indeed: the power of belief, deception on a cosmic scale, duty to one's peers, the use and abuse of knowledge.
I came expecting a bit of amusing low-fi spaceship drama...and left with resounding theological questions that are worth pondering for some time! Thank you, JG Ballard and the beautiful freaks that put together "Out of the Unknown".