There's a current crop of apocalyptic movies: "I Am Legend," "Children of Men," "28 Days Later," "Doomsday" to mention a few. It seems to me that when done well, they're echoes of our own spiritual dystopia.
Man was created by God and was living the life he was meant to live until a catastrophe hit and wiped out life as we knew it. It wasn't the usual trigger you find in dystopian stories, a virus, an asteroid or a nuclear war; it was a mysterious crisis (well, sin, to call it by its common name) in the human heart that wrecked our lives and drove us from our homes, and led to millenia of suffering and death.
Any good dystopian fiction will examine our real-life fall (the original fall and our tragic personal falls) and try to provide an explanation of this dystopian life in which we "do not understand our own actions; for we do not do what we want, but we do the very thing we hate."
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.—Lord Peter Wimsey
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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.—St John of Patmos
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