Thanks for bringing up rédéric Bastiat's The Law (1850). I guess I'll get to Sucker Punch (2011) pretty soon.

. I really do think that the disconnect he create is a feature and I've felt that reading many of the books by Arthur C. Clarke too. I enjoy it. It's not cinematic or hypnotic but deeply interesting.

S1m0ne (2002) was probably the most disconnected. It was like reading an academic paper about certain events and I do think it worked well. After all it was a movie to think about. It was about artificiality and facades and sort of a mix of black satire and GitS.