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Scarier than any sci-fi
posted by JustinJackFlashSTAFFMOD on June 26, 2018 at 11:05 PM
Science Fiction films often highlight current big issues in our culture by showing us harsh futures with those issues taken to extremities. But this is the world we live in right now and it's already extreme.
People manufacturing everything they say and do all day, every day and the people who lap it up. People obsessed with vacuous frivolities as they distract themselves from the vacuous frivolity of their own lives. Every endevour intended as an advertisement to other people of their own happiness and success rather than their own personal fulfillment.
The film even feels like a sci-fi because the way people behave in it would be completely unheard of to people 15 years ago. People have changed so much in such a short amount of time it's genuinely frightening.
Reply by northcoast
on June 27, 2018 at 4:46 AM
I really enjoyed this film, although it made me very sad for Aubrey Plaza's character-- Plaza did a great job as Ingrid.
I agree with the points you have raised, JustinJackFlash; I think, with the rise of the Internet, people in general have become even more superficial, less thoughtful, and, on a personal, real-life level, even less connected with each other, despite the "connectedness" of modern society/technology.
Concerning your second paragraph: "People manufacturing everything they say and do all day, everyday and the people who lap it up. People obsessed with vacuous frivolities as they distract themselves from the vacuous frivolity of their own lives . . . "
To that I say, in all seriousness, just see the Celebrity Discussions board here on TMDB, or, for that matter, the myriad General Hospital threads on the TV Discussions board.
Sad, indeed.
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on June 29, 2018 at 3:31 PM
Yeah, I did notice the entire tv show forum just filled with General Hospital. Being from the UK I'd never heard of it. I wondered what this obscure tv show was that everyone on this site was obsessed with. I'm guessing it's the main soap opera in the US.
I am baffled why all these people would come to a film site to talk about that. Surely there's countless gossip sites they could go to. It ruins the tv show side of the forum because I rarely see any quality tv show threads there, just a big, endless list of General Hospital.