The Irony of Dystopian Films

As a writer and reader (mostly non-fiction, but I do enjoy a good fiction tale every now and then), I am well aware of the irony that goes into a lot of the literature that we read in books or see in motion pictures.  Studying irony of situation is one of the things that made English one of my favorite subjects in high school.  Well, a bit of irony recently occurred to me with regard to those futuristic, dystopian stories and films that are so popular among fans of that…