Buildings aren’t big enough for Blade Runner yet, and there’s still a veneer of government control.
Man, we’d be so much better off if we lived in Idiocracy. Can you imagine living in a world where the people in charge were actually concerned about the well being of the people and actively sought out the smartest people they could find to try to solve the biggest problems society was facing, and then actually listened to what they said and followed their advice? That’s basically a utopia compared to what we got.
1984
If you think that’s crazy, try books!
Clockwork orange.
Bit of the ol’ in-out-in-out (tariffs) and ultraviolence (extraordinary rendition of civilians)? Sounds about right. We should as least get the oversized penis sculpture out of it, but we can’t have nice things.
Not a movie, but the start of the Handmaid’s Tale is quickly joining the documentary category.
New question: what movie do you want to happen next?
ITT: people who’ve given up the fight against tyranny and have resolved to allow the warnings from media become reality.
Literally nobody mentioned Brave New World?
We’ve already got the culture of distraction and the strictly stratified social hierarchy.
It has some great sociological observations but the parts about family and births is still ways away so I wouldn’t count it in here.
Given that most kids see their phones more than their parents, the only thing we’re missing is growing fetuses in bottles.
I remember the kids participating more like in group brainwashing sessions, not being in isolation with some device in hand
Say, blindly reciting the Pledge of Allegiance that brings some god into the equation?
Must be the shortage of orgy porgy and the high price of decent soma.
Brave new world just needs the baby machine and we’re off to the races
Soylent Green. You should really give it a watch some time, it’s about much more than it’s titular product.
Soylent Green is like a lengthy German sentence. You only find out what’s going on at the end.
Canadian bacon
Depending how this orange madman phase turns out: Fight Club or The Purge
Rick and Morty had a purge episode
Andor.
Isn’t andor ww2? Obviously history echoes through to today, but my reading is nazism spreading in Europe.
Season 1 is, yes. Season 2 is very much targeting today.
I’m on,y half way through, but season 2 has Gorman people speaking with French accents and forming a resistance movement. The empire is performing audits of farming and crops. messaging is by radio signal and bugs are hidden in offices with nearby people monitoring over earpieces. It still seems to be nazism from last century, but of course there are echoes in any authoritarian situation, including today.
Furthering the discussion more generally, battlestar galactica had a great season on new caprica where the humans were terrorists undermining the cyclon rulers. This was aired during gulf 2, so was very topical.
I wouldn’t focus too much on the anachronistic technology, that’s more to keep with the vibe of the original trilogy.
The farming audits, IMO, are pretty directly an analog to what ICE is doing in the US.
There’s definitely some WW2 influence and stylistic choices, if anything that’s to keep the execs willing to fund the thing, but later on you’ll see some more blatant comparisons to our modern situation.
Yeah the disinfo theme is quite heavy handed
I was thinking Mon Mothma’s speech, in particular.
Not a movie but The Handmaid’s Tale.
