Nov 29 2011
Six Movies That Could Depict the Future in a Realistic Way
The amount of movies that portray what our existence will be years from now is practically endless. From space westerns to apocalypse scenarios, the depiction of our future is so varied that a realistic sense of it rarely surfaces.
I mean it’s not like we’re in the Star Trek Enterprise yet, and we’re certainly not a society that contains only desert waste lands. Truth is, the future 20 years or even 50 years from now will aesthetically look very similar to what our world looks like today. It’s just that movies never portray that.
However, here are five movies that I think portray the future in a very real way….
Gattaca
I don’t remember where I read this but it’s been said that Gattaca is the most realistic depiction of the future film ever made. That’s a pretty bold statement. But the idea if blood and genetics determining our destinies is something that’s highly probable. I would imagine technologies are being built every day that will simply scan the skin to determine future disease, success, anything. Not to mention at some point we’ll simply be scanning our bodies just to purchase our everyday products.
The Road
It doesn’t depict the multi-tiered metropolises of an overpopulated future; nor does it contain confrontational struggles with fancy new technology. It doesn’t do any of these things, but yet it still feels like a genuine futurist film for one simple reason: it shows us a Hell on Earth that could actually come about with our reckless regard for the planet and, often, each other. The cataclysmic landscape of post-apocalyptic life is shown here in all of its disturbingly brutal reality, highlighting even more so the effect that such a situation has on human psychology and the subsequent breakdown of the social contract.
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All the “I, Robot” movie had in common with Asimov’s book was just the Three Laws of Robotics and some names.
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PD: The Road + Gattaca are my picks here.
I know it’s a personal list but i really hoped to see Gaspar Noé’s “Enter the Void” on this list. The film is not really about the future yet while watching you somhow imagine it plays in a believeable Future.
What about 1984? I know at this point it is in the past, but the whole idea about thought crimes, of a harsh class system, of Big Brother watching out over us. Doesn’t this seem like the most likely thing to happen, where the haves finally put down the have-nots. The entire point to 1984 is showing us about the growing (at that time) middle class. The US has become a middle class nation, and soon it will once again join the rest of the world being a majority of lower class, a few middle class and even less upper class, as the world has existed for thousands of years. 1984 is the past and will be the future.
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V For Vendetta? Very realistic future London
2001: A Space Odyssey? It even depicted an iPad.
Back to the Future II? We still got about 4 years left for a hover board to become reality.
I see what you did there, with Asimov and Foundation. Clever.
I’d chip in with A Scanner Darkly, which was pretty much a world that blended the mundane with the technological, sort of like if you were to see someone using an iphone in a proper old banger of a car.
Every film I thought of as soon as I read the post was on here, but after reading the comments I agree that V for Vendetta is legitimately possible.
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V for Vendetta could happen right here in America if this year’s election goes south.
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I like your hint at Foundation in I Robot.