That movie is depressingly sad, because it's a pretty accurate representation of social inconsistencies and how and why our structuring around it is flawed. It's a great movie. I've only watched it twice, once with my mother and once with my best friend, but I probably won't watch it again though. Just, because that's a bit too surreal.
I'm getting a bit soft like that as I get older. When I was a kid, I used to love the Mad Max films, and the early Fallout computer games, mostly anything post-apocalyptic I thought was a cool sci-fi spin. But as I got older and learned more about the world I'm in, gradually I kinda got to where it's difficult for me to enjoy certain things that are too representative of reality. I think largely in part because it's noticeably fvcked up.
I have trouble watching things like Black Mirror for the exact same reason. While I absolutely love the show, I think what we should be doing instead of making a plethora of media representations of systemic issues is you know, ACTUALLY address and attempt to improve the systemic issues that influence these kinds of things to come into fruition as a medium in the first place??
That's kind of what we're supposed to do as both a species and as a society.
Why did we build buildings? We built buildings to protect us from weather conditions and to try to improve our quality of life and not go extinct.
Why did we advance medicine? We advanced medicine because human suffering is nearly as painful to watch as it is to experience, and also because being alive is kind of really important.
So why the **** don't we address and do something about the kind of systemic problems that cause these kinds of media formalities to come into existence in the first place?
Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy them as the entertainment mediums that they are, but I have to take them in smaller doses because if they don't make me really sad than they will make me really angry and I kind of don't like being either of those things.
