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.)
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.
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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 start of the Handmaid’s Tale is quickly joining the documentary category.
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But it’s got what plants crave!
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.
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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.
New question: what movie do you want to happen next?
Natural Born Killers is next.
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.
“Her”
