Over the past weeks, Civil War (2024) by Alex Garland brought back into the collective conversation what might happen in a dystopian future in which governments lose their monopoly on guns. The idea behind the director’s latest film does more than just explore this theme. At the same time, it shows the worst-case scenario and delves into the horrors of a civil conflict that could lead to the complete destruction of the country. A panorama that has been analyzed in recent years from many perspectives and in more than one dimension.
Last fall, leave the world Back is also horrified by a dystopian future in which many conspiracy theories come true. From a chemical attack by an unknown enemy to the fall of civilization as we know it in the midst of an unknown catastrophe. Sam Esmail analyzed the electronic apocalypse based on self-fulfilling prophecies and the manipulation of spheres of power. It also demonstrated, at least in the context of the film, the fragility of institutions of power and those who maintain cultural order. An alarming premise, which was exacerbated by the possibility of such an event.
Of course, this is not a recent obsession. We leave you with five films in which Hollywood delved into the greatest fears and horrors of modern society. From eugenics, taken to a dictatorial level and in the style of a new order of control, to the very limits of bioethics. The collection, in a pessimistic and alarming tone, tells about everything that our era fears for the future. A sinister moral worth discussing.
Gattaca (Filmin)
Director and screenwriter Andrew Niccol imagined a society in 1997 in which genetic selection in the laboratory became a reality. Much more: it is a form of segregation of society, allowing the creation of hierarchical castes. As in vitro fertilization becomes the only form of procreation, power can destroy and purify the new generation. In this way, physical defects are eradicated from the moment they arise. Gattaca It’s a terrifying dystopia but also a moral lesson about the obsession with physical cleansing and what its ultimate consequences can lead to.
All of the above puts Vincent (Ethan Hawke) in a difficult and very difficult position. Since he is one of the few people born naturally, his chances of rising up the scale of significant triumphs are virtually nil. So he’ll have to resort to a complicated plan and Jerome (Jude Law), a victim of prejudice due to his disability, to achieve it. His goal? Participate in space programs that accept only perfect and scientifically created citizens who support a new popular culture.
With a minimalist aesthetic that emulates the idea of a future purged of any error or natural defect. Gattaca It amazes with its visual elegance. But much more because of the underlying message of his script: life as we know it can disappear because of a small decision by those in power. The most disturbing element of the entire room.
Minority Report (Movistar+)
Steven Spielberg is good at imagining possible futures, but the most ominous and frightening of them all was the one he conceived in 2002. Film adaptation of the story Minority Report (1956) by Philip K. Dick details a world in which law is predictable. Moreover, to a fact that has not yet occurred, but is accepted as true. What leads to punishment for a crime, even if nothing indicates that it will happen beyond what the prediction of the psychics in charge of the task indicates.
John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is one of the officials responsible for maintaining this cruel system. He never doubted him until he found himself in a trap from which there was no way out. He is accused of a future murder, which he does not understand how he could commit. This leads him to confront the oppressive machinery he helped maintain. Moreover, recognize that the system is fallible and therefore part of a conspiracy to bring about conviction.
The director took the concept and also created a world full of technical achievements, which, just over two decades after the film’s release, was almost fully realized. Which makes the film a rarity and a work worthy of discussion. amid renewed interest in dystopian futures.
Through the Snow (Prime Video)
Before you disturb the world Parasites and having received an Oscar for this film, Bong Joon Ho was already thinking about good and evil, among class differences and the abuse of privilege. snowmobile shows a dystopian future in which the world, as we know it has fallen, all in the midst of a multiple crisis that is causing global catastrophe.
In an attempt to escape disaster, a group of millionaires build a train that will travel around the world, creating a kind of grand and endless celebration of the approaching apocalypse. It leaves behind all those who can’t pay nor will they be allowed into the midst of the latest extravagant activities of the world’s great magnates.
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Only, of course, everything will not be so simple. A crowd of homeless people will board the train, leaving its rich passengers with no choice but to accept it. Which would cause years of tension, horror and ultimately an explosion in the midst of the end of the world and the end of life as we know it. Pessimistic, brutal and philosophical, this is perhaps the South Korean director’s most complex film to date.
Lobster (Mooby)
Do you like me Poor creatures and would you like to know a little more about the work of its director? Lobster This is the perfect movie for that. This time, Yorgos Lanthimos takes the idea of a dystopian future and takes it to a more private place.
This is if you imagine a world in which having a partner is vital, much like survival. And this is not a poetic resource. In this vision of the future, all single adults would find a partner in less than 45 days or will eventually turn into an animal and go into the forest.
Because of this, romantic relationships become a matter of life and death. The director, who is also co-writing the script with Efthymis Filippou, reflects on the necessity of love and the conflation of modern love and loneliness. This is in a surreal landscape that will become increasingly gets scarier as the footage progresses.
Never Let Me Go (Disney+)
Before imagining civil confrontations and the horrors of artificial intelligence, Alex Garland helmed this rare gem that examines and reflects on bioethical responsibility. But instead of focusing on a laboratory or similar facility, he does so in a seemingly idyllic location full of young teenagers. What no one knows is that their very existence is driven by the greed of society to create clones to ensure life and health.
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The idea, based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, is painful in its terrifying potential to become true. Artificially created young people are simply waiting their turn to become forced organ donors for themselves, the rich men and women who pay for this opportunity.
Gradually, what begins as an analysis of the scientific work that links the film to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein turns into heartbreaking horror. All this leads to a heartbreaking and hopeless ending.
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