I saw The Road and It Comes At Night pretty quickly after each other. Both incredibly disturbing in how possible and real it all is. Any other films that portray the incoming environmental collapse and/or societal decay?

  • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Children of Men

    It's not exactly about an eco disaster but an impending doom just like it and how people would handle it in our capitalist world. Mass unemployment, crime and violence, heavy police state, feeling surreal going to work a normal job like the world isn't ending etc.

    • cilantrofellow [any]
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      4 years ago

      Children of Men honestly is one of the best movies of the 21st century.

      "This stork is delicious"

    • threshold [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Love the youngest person in the world is a celebrity. Culture industry continues to thrive!

      • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I rewatch it every couple years, it's so fucking good. Not only is the story good, it's well made. The ridiculously long single shot scene in the refugee camp was intense.

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Not so fun fact, pregnancies decrease due to pollution and warm weather, so Global Warming/Climate Change will bring down birth rates generally.

      https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/climate-change-air-pollution-investigation-study

        • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I don't buy the reasoning that people aren't having kids because they're broke. Poor people have way more kids than bougies. Honestly it seems like the poorer you get the more kids you have.

          • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            more complicated than that, going from a middle class upbringing into being poor is probably more likely to stop you having kids than just being poor.

      • Caocao [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        tag yourself

        The lack of an effective disciplinary system has not, to say the least, been compensated for by an increase in student self-motivation. Students are aware that if they don't attend for weeks on end, and/or if they don't produce any work, they will not face any meaningful sanction. They typically respond to this freedom not by pursuing projects but by falling into hedonic (or anhedonic) lassitude: the soft narcosis, the comfort food oblivion of Playstation, all-night TV and marijuana.