I always really liked the Hunger Games. Since the authors father is a military historian, I felt like Suzanne Collins made her dystopian world a bit true to life. I've been meaning to watch Groudhog Day with my kids.
It's mostly a "me thing" in that I have a really hard time with dystopias in general because they usually involve something that seems too wildly implausible for me to accept it. I can't really read alternate histories, either.
This was a little interesting in that some of its more exaggerated elements cut in the opposite direction from the usual political coding. That is, the movie leans really heavily into the effete decadence of the ruling class, contrasting it with the inherent decency of simple rural folk, which is usually a right-wing trope. These play really well with folks on the left, though, which is a mildly surprising reversal of the usual cultural partisanship.
But mostly the whole set-up just seems kind of ridiculous in a ham-handedly satirical way.
I always really liked the Hunger Games. Since the authors father is a military historian, I felt like Suzanne Collins made her dystopian world a bit true to life. I've been meaning to watch Groudhog Day with my kids.
It's mostly a "me thing" in that I have a really hard time with dystopias in general because they usually involve something that seems too wildly implausible for me to accept it. I can't really read alternate histories, either.
This was a little interesting in that some of its more exaggerated elements cut in the opposite direction from the usual political coding. That is, the movie leans really heavily into the effete decadence of the ruling class, contrasting it with the inherent decency of simple rural folk, which is usually a right-wing trope. These play really well with folks on the left, though, which is a mildly surprising reversal of the usual cultural partisanship.
But mostly the whole set-up just seems kind of ridiculous in a ham-handedly satirical way.