Just for those who have remarked that they live in Brazil. It’s the movie Brazil that this meme is referring to.
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil is a masterpiece. He denies it, but anyone that has seen the movie and really knew Brazil in the eighties knows that movie is absolutely about the country.
Love to see Soylent Green on there. Both in a metaphorically and quickly approaching literal sense.
Idk it doesn’t look like we’ll run out of food and the population bomb turned out to be a dud. Maybe the food chain will collapse in the ecocrisis, but Capital will find a way to produce food more energy-intensively to compensate.
It’s a classic, but it reflects the anxieties of the time for sure.
I’m not convinced that tech and humanity can create enough food sources to make up for losses that climate change is going to create. I think the damage is going to occur much more quickly than any replacement food chain could be established.
“I wonder why all these societal commentaries feel like society”
I wonder if there’s a general vibe to these specific societal commentaries…
Ah yes, the four cornerstones of dystopian fiction: 1984, Brave New World, Idiocracy, and Hunger Games
Where’s weekend at Bernie’s
Should have gone with Social, Political, Economical and (Post-)Apocalyptical.
I had a go at Authoritarian, Scarcity, Chaotic, and Plentiful
Needs to fit in Handmaids Tale here somewhere too.
And Terminator…
And cyberpunk
Swap it with The Matrix
FFS just put on the damn sunglasses.
No we need to have an unnecessary 10 minute fistfight instead of just trying it for myself.
And in so doing, we’ll have the greatest first fight ever committed to film.
Oh, don’t be so dramatic. We’re nowhere near that yet. We’re just rapidly spiraling toward it like a disoriented skydiver tangled in the lines of their reserve chute.
Don’t forget that we are actually skydiving in tandem with someone who either doesn’t believe in gravity, is trying to hit the ground on purpose, or both.
That person is actively stabbing at the harness with a rusty pair of shears while accusing you of sabotaging the jump. Sometimes they end up stabbing themselves, but usually they just end up stabbing you through the harness instead.
This is the most apt metaphor for the maga moment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you for that.
I like to think it wasn’t even tandem, they entered the picture Point Break style.
We were skydiving. They just jumped out a plane after us.
Plunging toward oblivion while happily screaming, “10,000’ so far so good, 5,000’ so far so good…”
Only sometimes? How do you make it NOT feel like that?
Recreational drugs.
Can’t spell drugs without U
Or rugs. Rugs really tie the room together.
Recreating reality since, like, forever
This diagram would make the same amount of sense if you randomized the titles in it.
Maybe they’re already random.Nah, I can see it.
- 1984: they’re rewriting history / propagandizing
- Idiocracy: the morons are in charge
- Hunger Games: they’re pitting us against each other
- Brave New World: they’re distracting us with entertainment
The others seem to fall pretty well into those categories.
They’re also rewriting history in Idiocracy (It’s actually a key story element at the end).
“They’re pitting us against each other” is one of the most important aspects in 1984.
And “They’re distracting us with entertainment” is literally at the core of Hunger Games.So it still works beautifully
now explain brazil there, how is it om the 1984 and not hunger games
Are you thinking of the film or the country?
The film has a large overbearing surveillance state / bureaucracy as the chief antagonist, it’s about the suppression of art and loss of human connection. Do you see it differently?
wiat there is a film called brazil?
It’s directed by Terry Gilliam, and it’s brilliant. It’s set in a bureaucratic totalitarian state, and follows a minor functionary who is slowly losing his mind. There are multiple overlapping plots, involving a rebel heating engineer, a man mistakenly abducted and tortured to death by the government after a computer glitch, the functionary’s politically ambitious mother, a quack plastic surgeon, a beautiful truck driver, terrorist attacks, and the functionary’s ever-growing escapist fantasy life. It’s one of my favorite films. Right up there with Delicatessen in terms of dystopian comedy sci-fi.
I was wondering how Lord of the Flies fit in the Idiocracy circle.
Kids are dumb
Yeah it’s not really even a joke it’s just for the clapter. If someone said to you “it’s like we’re living in a dystopian future” it would be the same level of humor as this post.
The only thing putting it in a four-way venn diagram added was to explain to the reader that the person doesn’t know how venn diagrams work.
I’m in Brazil and I feel this.
Those films were supposed to be a warning … NOT A GUIDE!
Torment Nexus! Torment Nexus!
the matrix looks so cool though…
The hookup to the Matrix in this reality is located a lot lower in the body than at the base of the neck
kinky
All those character names they use … Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, Tank, Switch … they’re just Porn names for the ‘Matrix’
I stared at this for a good couple of minutes trying to figure out why the new Captain America movie was in the diagram
very weak in the subgroupings. There could be 2 axises of dystopia. 1. Autocratic vs chaotic 2. some attempt to mean well vs dystopia by design.
axes*
Media is inspired by reality.
Lol not even close lmao 🤣
