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Did you watch it? What did you think? I like the sound of it but that IMDB score is below my usual threshold for watching
It’s mostly a collection of found news footage, shots lifted from other dystopian films, and a low-budget self-narrated life of a silent women of the future living in the rubble of a mall in San Fransisco. The future fiction parts feel over the top coming from September 2022 when it was announced, or even October 2024 when it was released, but in July 2025 it definitely hits different.
The documentary parts take up the lion’s share of the run-time, and are relevant to our role as citizen news aggregators. It puts the right-wing news actors and politicians in their proper context, and is a good summary of what we’re up against.
Thanks. That sounds decent. Would you recommend?
I just finished it myself, and I’d say it’s absolutely worth watching. The documentary bits are very compelling and well edited.
For the documentary aspects of it, yeah.
…seem to understand that the pummelled audience can take only so much cinematic doomscrolling.
They clearly underestimate us.
Whereas, Mr. Carey seems to be taking his turn to remind us that Idiocracy was blithely billed as a comedy.
“This is not fiction. This is not documentary. This is a warning.”
I’ll track it down online and report back after I’ve given it a look, me hearties.
Edit: Ok, so I just finished it, and… I’m still digesting,
But I will say this: in all honesty and without hyperbole, even the encrypted methods I used to find & acquire the video will not be enough to keep it off the list of “reasons” why the impending world order targets me for sanitizing, I have no doubt.
This film is as heavy-handed and unapologetic as it is factual and necessary. Watch it. Don’t flinch. Don’t shut it off. Absorb it. Know that you are not alone in this, and together is just maybe the only way through it all that doesn’t end with humanity in the thresher, en masse.
FWIW: the only shots that are scripted are the clearly acted ones, and the rest are all footage from real life events, ranging from historical to modern day. (In fact, a number of the forest fire scenes are from two of the PacNW fires I personally experienced first-hand, and were singularly chilling to re-experience in this medium, FYI.)
On a long enough timeline, they’re coming for each of us anyway. You might as well be able to remember why, in that moment. Share this film. Seed for as long as you can.
It’s only a matter of time, friends. Unless we boost the signal. Please. Do. 🥲🙇🏼♂️🥲✊🏼
Thank you for your service. Please remember to poke me when reporting back, me hearty.
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Sound.
