Personally, as is often noted, “Idiocracy” is probably tops for current events… but for the farther future, I’d go Blade Runner Universe, most likely… just for the sheer scale of total biosphere degradation and megacorp control. How about you?
I’m going with “They Live”.
I would say that we will very soon find ourselves in 1984 or perhaps Brazil, with a little bit of The Circle and Her thrown in, but overall it will be more like The Road due to climate change, unless Elysium technology has been developed by then, which is unlikely, but if so, it will certainly be used as depicted in the film.
1984
Three way tie in my book:
That episode of Black Mirror where everyone had to ride stationary bikes and were forced to watch unstoppable ads if they didn’t have credits, except everything you have to watch is AI slop instead of your crush doing porn.
Or the Handmaid’s Tale, but instead of some mysterious infertility crisis, fertile women are rare because they die in pregnancy and childbirth due to anti-science rhetoric flat out killing them. (Look up “free birthing”, etc.) At some point it gets bad enough that replacing your wife is more like getting a new pet.
Maybe the hot version of The Road. We just have wars over water and resources until the plantet’s too fucked for human life, and the survivors are just roaming around making jerky out of each other until the end.
Could be all three at once. Yay!
Wall-E
Not a movie yet (AFAIK), but Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower is downright uncanny.
Lots of great answers here but the first that came to my mind is Gattaca.
We’re in that part in the Star Trek timeline where everything is shitty.
Tomorrow I might as well see a manifestation of Q and watch a bewildered Picard shout “You can’t judge all of humanity by this barbaric time!”
WWIII is due to start next year.
Star Trek timeline had WW3 at 1996
Idiocracy 💯
Go away, ‘batin’.
Shadowrun.
OK, maybe without all the supernatural elements.
Back to the Future 2’s bad timeline.
wow. Surprisingly awesome answer. Biff’s Casino IS America right now
We’re not there yet, but I could see a bit more fear-mongering smashing us into V For Vendetta territory
I think we’re closer to v for vendetta than we realize. We have secret police kidnapping people. We’re literally building concentration camps en masse even though we have the highest percentage of citizens incarcerated per capita in the world already. We got musk with a company literally putting brain chips in people and doing god knows what with huge government subsidies and he shut down ethics investigations into what he was doing so… yeah
Not exactly sci fi, but the TV adaptation of Handmaid’s Tale bears some striking parallels to the current renaissance that extreme right ideologies are currently enjoying. Off the top of my head…
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It shows how quickly and easily street-level enforcement of an authoritarian system can be implemented, and that there is no shortage of people willing to take on that role.
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It shows that the architects of an oppressive system aren’t necessarily “true believers” in such a system, nor are they held to the standards demanded of the average citizen.
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It shows how extremist ideologies bleed beyond the borders of one country and begin to infect others.
You can see examples of all three of these in what’s happening now.
I agree with you
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Robocop, corporate ownership of major infrastructure, militant authoritarian police force.
It seems like we’re shifting into Minority Report. There are actual pre crime divisions in police departments now and the surveillance state continues to grow exponentially.
…and it was wrong.
