Buildings aren’t big enough for Blade Runner yet, and there’s still a veneer of government control.
(ETA: No one’s said it yet, but 1984 is so obvious that it wasn’t worth mentioning.)
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.
But it’s got what plants crave!
Not a movie, but the start of the Handmaid’s Tale is quickly joining the documentary category.
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.
1984
Literally nobody mentioned Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”?
We’ve already got the chemically suppressed culture of distraction and the strictly stratified social hierarchy.
Must be the shortage of orgy porgy and the high price of decent soma.
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?
That’s a better analogy, no phones involved
If you think that’s crazy, try books!
ITT: people who’ve given up the fight against tyranny and have resolved to allow the warnings from media become reality.
Man if only they new christ was making fun of the fascists pig Legionnaires in year 27 or so. This is the fight.
Brave new world just needs the baby machine and we’re off to the races
New question: what movie do you want to happen next?
I could live with Annihilation or Interstellar. Not brave enough for a World War Z or 28…Later scenario.
Canadian bacon
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.
“Her”
Don’t Look Up is basically reality already.
Robocop. Corps owning everything, with slums for the rest, and enforcement by unthinking machines. Except, there will be no Murphy
Robocop needs to be mentioned a lot more.
Rollerball (1975) has similar corporate city themes
its a common trope in the cyberpunk genre
