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I feel like we need movies/media that helps things feel more real, personal, negative, close to home. Not movies that _focus_ and sensationalize climate disast
by alonmower 4y ago
I feel like we need movies/media that helps things feel more real, personal, negative, close to home.
Not movies that _focus_ and sensationalize climate disasters like The Day After Tomorrow. But movies that exist in the near future where really visceral elements of how climate change played out 10-20 years exist as a backdrop to whatever story is being told (but feel grounded in reality).
e.g. water rationing, abandoned towns/cities, authoritarian responses to increased immigration/migration, food shortages, etc...
- kergonath 4y ago> e.g. water rationing, abandoned towns/cities, authoritarian responses to increased immigration/migration, food shortages, etc... More like Mad Max?
- alonmower 4y agoYa the original is a good example but that's probably still too apocalyptic, one can watch that and scoff saying "it'd never get that bad". Stuff that's more focused on the immediate, painful changes but still in line of sight from our current reality. Children of Men did a pretty good job pulling some subtle "here's how society has changed for the worse" world building in (obviously all based on it's underlying premise that no more children are being born)
- formerkrogemp 4y ago> More like Mad Max? More like California, Arizona, Utah, South Africa, etc.?
- sveme 4y agoChildren of Men feels like a very realistic dystopia of the UK five years from now.
- tremon 4y agoChildren of Men doesn't specify the cause for the infertility, I think? Only some handwavy "there were some chemicals", IIRC? At least I'm pretty certain it doesn't attribute anything to climate change.
- theriddlr 4y agoRussell T Davies's Years & Years feels like a plausible near future. Bananas are extinct, baking systems failing, refugee crises.
- throwaway_4ever 4y agoI'd say 'Don't Look Up', but on second thought, the venn diagram of climate change denialists and people who don't realize the movie's a satire about climate change is almost a circle.