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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
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.
Please leave The Matrix out of this. Seriously, do not compare any of that to The Matrix. It is a trans-allegory. If anything, not enough people know that. So many fucking Red Pill douchebags who would renounce the franchise once they learned that.
Flavour 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...
Needs to fit in Handmaids Tale here somewhere too.
And cyberpunk
And Terminator...
Swap it with The Matrix
Ah yes, the four cornerstones of dystopian fiction: 1984, Brave New World, Idiocracy, and Hunger Games
Where's weekend at Bernie's
Or Zootopia!
Should have gone with Social, Political, Economical and (Post-)Apocalyptical.
I had a go at Authoritarian, Scarcity, Chaotic, and Plentiful
I like how you swapped brave new world
I should rematch Gattaca
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.
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..."
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.
Only sometimes? How do you make it NOT feel like that?
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.
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
Those films were supposed to be a warning .... NOT A GUIDE!
Torment Nexus! Torment Nexus!
I'm in Brazil and I feel this.
I stared at this for a good couple of minutes trying to figure out why the new Captain America movie was in the diagram
Media is inspired by reality.
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.