Not a movie, but the start of the Handmaid's Tale is quickly joining the documentary category.
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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"
ITT: people who've given up the fight against tyranny and have resolved to allow the warnings from media become reality.
New question: what movie do you want to happen next?
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.
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
Must be the shortage of orgy porgy and the high price of decent soma.
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.
Brave new world just needs the baby machine and we're off to the races
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
Not a movie but The Handmaid's Tale.
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.
Yeah the disinfo theme is quite heavy handed
I was thinking Mon Mothma's speech, in particular.
Its a book and its called:
Parable of the Sower, By Octavia E. Butler.
It was scary how real it felt lol.
This book hits so close to home its traumatic to read.
spoiler
The shitbag evil president in the book literally campaigns using the motto "Make America Great Again".
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.
Depending how this orange madman phase turns out: Fight Club or The Purge
Rick and Morty had a purge episode
Almost all dystopic sci-fi movies and books (including Blade Runner) are documentaries once you move past the visuals.
Catch-22 is creeping up on us.
Canadian bacon
Natural Born Killers is next.
Yes. But instead of prison population revolting they’re just getting pardoned instead.
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.