I saw The Road and It Comes At Night pretty quickly after each other. Both incredibly disturbing in how possible and real it all is. Any other films that portray the incoming environmental collapse and/or societal decay?
I was gonna say The Road for the case of post climate disaster but you already got there :)
Mad Max: Fury Road and Snowpiercer for ecological decay
V for Vendetta, kind of — the setting is very believable even if the comic book aspects are still quite comic book. The Wachowskis did a great job updating the graphic novel (from the 80s) for the trajectory we’ve been on post-9/11 so most of the specific political elements really hold up even though it’s from 2007
plus buzzcut natalie portman hot
If I recall correctly the back story is that a pandemic accelerated internal divisions in the US causing a new civil war including mass use of chemical weapons
oh damn, I forgot about that part.
V for vendetta has its moments and I was all about that movie in my twenties…but as I’ve gotten older and arguably wiser I agree with Alan Moore: The Wachowskies replaced his far more poigniant dichotomy of Fascism and Anarchism with Fascism and Liberal Democracy…which is a lot less interesting.
I suppose in 2005 the world was not ready for such a discussion in the mainstream…but it makes the film feel more dated then ever in the Bush era whilst the graphic novel still offers insight LONG past the era of Thatcher.
Yeah, it’s terrific. Very on the nose, but in the age where huge loud blaring fascist runs America, I think some people need to be hit over the head.
Valerie’s story makes it one of my favorite movies of all time. I have especially fond associations about that in particular cause my first time seeing it was because my older brother had me watch it with him shortly after I came out to him waaaay back in the day. So I’ve got that super nice memory on top of it already being a fantastic film :)
Plus when the vague but definitely shitty future stresses me out too much, telling myself “For three years i had roses and apologised to no one” always centers me.
Children of Men
It’s not exactly about an eco disaster but an impending doom just like it and how people would handle it in our capitalist world. Mass unemployment, crime and violence, heavy police state, feeling surreal going to work a normal job like the world isn’t ending etc.
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The lack of an effective disciplinary system has not, to say the least, been compensated for by an increase in student self-motivation. Students are aware that if they don’t attend for weeks on end, and/or if they don’t produce any work, they will not face any meaningful sanction. They typically respond to this freedom not by pursuing projects but by falling into hedonic (or anhedonic) lassitude: the soft narcosis, the comfort food oblivion of Playstation, all-night TV and marijuana.
Not so fun fact, pregnancies decrease due to pollution and warm weather, so Global Warming/Climate Change will bring down birth rates generally.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/climate-change-air-pollution-investigation-study
I don’t buy the reasoning that people aren’t having kids because they’re broke. Poor people have way more kids than bougies. Honestly it seems like the poorer you get the more kids you have.
Antz
haha dude. The ultimate distillation of why Jerry Seinfeld is irreverent post Reaganism. I loved Roger Ebert, (who quotes Marx in the beginning of his review) while also saying “Most of the humor is verbal, and tends toward the gently ironic rather than the hilarious.” I distinctly remember sitting in a silent but full theatre. It was just so bizarre.
Politically though? I dig it trying to give profit to labourers, but they follow it up with ‘but they’re bees, and they intrinsically need to work otherwise they’d be aimless’. Thanks, millionaire Jerry Seinfeld. Not everyone works for fun.
