1999: A tower block contains youths ‘bought off’ by the government, in a climate of microchip-created endless leisure, who experience (often pornographic) virtual reality-style fantasies by donning the titular ‘shades’, until a 1980s theme party (they predicted that right, at least) leads to ideology and political thought seeping in under the dazed lifestyle.
Bill Hays
Director
Stephen Lowe
Writer

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Adam
Stuart MacKenzie
Joe
Emily Moore
Kate

Shelagh McLeod
Diana

Tony Benn
Self (archive footage)
Helen Caldicott
Self (archive footage)
Michael Feldman
Tony
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