Idiocracy
Let’s talk about a movie that takes a look at politics with a twist. Imagine all the science fiction shows you’ve seen in the past years and think about how technology could improve our lives and how spectacular things would be; flying cars, teleportation and advanced medicine. Now picture that mental image you just created is shattered in a million pieces and the future will only be dumber than what it is now. I’ve seen this movie a few weeks ago but never found the courage to write about it. I am no fan of stupid comedies. And the idea behind the movie is prone to controversy. However, when the same week TWiT #90 gave it an honorable mention.
In a sense it goes off this way (I’m not the one making this up), the high IQ people are the ones having less children and all your average Joe and Jane are having more kids they can handle. Their “idiocracy” is passed on genetically and we end up generations later in a world where everything is dumbed down to the lowest minimum. Many systems are automated with inputs that look like a toy for a 5 year old. They even garden the crops with a sports drink and can’t figure out why plants stopped growing. The fun factor is when a military officer is enrolled in an experimental program to freeze him for one year. However the hibernation system goes wrong, the project is closed and forgotten. The pods end up in a big dumpster. The protagonists are released thanks to a garbage avalanche a few hundred years later. I’ll avoid giving a score to Idiocracy, if you like comedies in the line of White Chicks, Scary Movie and Date Movie you will tolerate this one. Not that it’s in any form better then the ones stated now.
