This is very obvious and is far too simple a point to make in an attempt to translate Huxley. The plot is roughly the same but the film is keen to point out how this future is so very like the current world that many of us in the West now live in. This version is kind of interesting in an obvious way, but really is not even worthy of sharing the name of the book (and indeed doesn't really stick to it either). For a major film to attempt to bring a major novel to the screen is a brave move, but for a cheap TVM to have a stab at it is even more of a risk. Initially John is taken by the society but gradually he begins to see that the world is not as he wants it.

When a chance helicopter accident brings him into contact with one of the `savages', John Cooper, he brings him back as an experiment. However one of the conditioning team, Bernard, can't help but feel if there were any ways of making it better.

In society, babies are no longer born, they are designed into social categories to decide their future roles. In the near future society is managed so that everyone is happy - only a few live on the edges of society as trash.

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