• wabafee@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    This movie is no longer satire it’s documentary, COVID made me realize how people act in movies is almost 1:1 in reality. The same with the current state we have now.

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      17 hours ago

      Covid made me realise that even the dumbest person in a horror movie who goes down into the basement on their own, actually exist.

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      17 hours ago

      Yeah, i think that’s it. It was pretty much just a hyperbolic commentary on the 2000s and the world kept heading in that direction.

      It gets a lot of flak for it’s eugenics themes. I agree that the problem isn’t a system that breeds people genetically predisposed to stupidity. I would have preferred it if the movie had chosen a different mechanism for the dumbing down of the population.

      Personally, I think it’s socioeconomic. Rising wealth inequality is causing a decline in the quality of the average median level of education.