Now that V for Vendetta and Idiocracy have essentially become documentaries, what other movies do you place in that camp?
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.)
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
Rollerball (1975) has similar corporate city themes
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Robocop needs to be mentioned a lot more.
Its a book and its called:
Parable of the Sower, By Octavia E. Butler.
It was scary how real it felt lol.
You know it's serious when an Octavia gets involved. I'll take a look.
On a lighter note, try her book 'Wild Seed.' A shape shifting witch encounters a body thief demon. He wants her powers, but the body dies soon after he inhabits it, so he has to 'persuade' her.
This book hits so close to home its traumatic to read. ::: spoiler spoiler The shitbag evil president in the book literally campaigns using the motto "Make America Great Again". :::
The Parable of the Talents was a difficult read. I think of it often. It's a damn shame there aren't more in the series
Almost all dystopic sci-fi movies and books (including Blade Runner) are documentaries once you move past the visuals.
Not a movie but The Handmaid's Tale.
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.
Not a movie, but the start of the Handmaid's Tale is quickly joining the documentary category.
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!
Catch-22 is creeping up on us.
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.
Depending how this orange madman phase turns out: Fight Club or The Purge
Rick and Morty had a purge episode
Natural Born Killers is next.
Yes. But instead of prison population revolting they’re just getting pardoned instead.
Brave new world just needs the baby machine and we're off to the races
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.
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.
If you think that's crazy, try books!
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"
4400, we are reaching that future, but minus the advanced technology of time traveling and gifting humans powers to try and change the past, the premise is that the rich selfishly squander the resources and built themselves a pristine enclave while everything outside is a total slum( funny thing it's also a premise of the 3rd CNC games too. I think judge dress is another where the humans are living in just 5 super cities.