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Are there that many anti-capitalist science fiction films in the past 25 years?
Snowpiercer, Wall-E, Transcendence, Blade Runner 2049, The Hunger Games, Children of Men, District 9, Sorry To Bother You, City of Ember, Spaceman
Moon !
Good one! My personal fan theory is that Moon is set in the Blade Runner universe.
Wall-E always annoys me because it promotes the absurd assumption that without having to work people become fat and lazy. I am of the firm belief that people want meaning in their lives and that, freed from worries about subsistence, they fill their time with meaningful (to them at least) activities. Though, gravity did play a role in the immobility part if I remember right.
Love the environmental stuff though.
I think it's not the absence of work alone, but the steady feed of pleasure via their chair data feeds, and chair feeders lol
They are all just terminally online, and it just so happens their gamer nest is a moving chair on a sterilized spaceship
I didn't think it was the absence of work that made people fat and lazy, but blind consumerism. Those people could have used their time pursuing knowledge, creating art, or even just building a community with their crew mates, but instead, they engaged in the same type of mindless consumption that killed their planet. They lived in a post-needs society, but they had been so conditioned by capitalism (or more accurately, an AI that had no framework for human happiness beyond capitalism) that they couldn't think of anything to do but consume.
It’s been awhile since I watched it, I’ll watch with your more charitable reading next time and see if I can accept it!
The author must not have seen Children of Men right?
Nor District 9.
District 9 is mentioned as one of the director’s other films
Yeah, that's some Cunningham's Law amount of clickbait BS. 🙄
Andor isn't explicitly anti-capitalist, but it is revolutionary, so I'd throw that in there. Very well made to boot.
Anti-fascist you might say
Very much so :)