What dystopian movie most accurately represents our current course?

[debsy]

It seems to me that Elysium is a close rendition of where we might be headed. The divide and conquer part is done. I also thought about Minority Report.

Some other lists with options in case anyone is interested in casually watching how prescient writers have been in history rather than watching it happen in real time.😫

https://lifehacker.com/10-of-the-best-movies-that-prove-rich-people-are-terrib-1848628516]

https://www.cbr.com/accurate-dystopian-movies/]

https://www.thereviewgeek.com/bestmovies-dystopianworlds/]

Obviously, many of these are based on the writings of well-known works by Orwell, Huxley, and others.

[Shermann]

1. "The Day After Tomorrow" is another. nt

[debsy]

2. Good reminder of the climate crisis

Well worth the watch.

[lark]

3. Manchurian Candidate.

Put in place by Putin.

[debsy]

7. Spot on!

[livetohike]

4. Just finished binge watching The Man in the High

Castle. It’s chilling. Don’t want to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen the series, but the comparisons to The Felon’s regime are scary.

[debsy]

6. I've been wanting to watch that for a while now...

I have only heard good things (as in it is very well-done) about it. I guess the time has arrived…

[Blue Full Moon]

5. Elysium and the others like it.

Is what they want. I believe those movies were to get us use to it.

[Bookreadingliberal53]

8. Countdown to Looking Glass nt

[mikeysnot]

9. Leave the world behind

With Sandra Bullock… the Obamas were producers.

[The Madcap]

10. Mad Max

Crossed with Idiocracy.

[Iris]

23. I'm thinking Mad Max too, as we head toward environmental collapse

[JPK]

11. The first three episodes of the Star Wars series

It looks almost exactly like what is happening now in our government.

[Shermann]

12. Yes, Trump's cabinet reminds me of the Mos Eisley Cantina! nt

[GreenWave]

13. Life After Humans

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. Soylent Billionaires. (I'm working on it.) nt

[debsy]

18. I'll help!

I remember watching Soylent Green when it came out ( I was 11) and being terrified by it. Certainly one for the library of dystopian classics!

[Deep State Witch]

15. Idiocracy

It's not a how-to manual.

[GoCubsGo]

16. Yup. The first time I saw it,

I knew it was going to turn out to be a documentary. And, here we are.

[debsy]

19. Absolutely right

We knew it was coming when it first came our

[MineralMan]

17. Judge Dredd Is a Contender

"Eat recycled food. It's good for the environment and OK for you. Eat recycled food!

"Now, all restaurants are Taco Bell."

[JustAnotherGen]

20. Not a Movie but

The Plot against America.

What I wish would happen?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(film)

I'm there. This only ends in violence. That is my deep thought on MagaMerica

[allegorical oracle]

21. Well, my droogs, it's Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange".

[Mossfern]

22. Morlocks vs. Eloi

The Time Machine

We are the Eloi, the Billionaires are the Morlock

It's true, the issue really isn't right vs left - it's billionaires and wannabe billionaires vs the "lower" classes. "The love of money is the root of all evil." I believe that.

[marmar]

24. Empire Strikes Back combined with Idiocracy

[Ping Tung]

25. House of Cards (American version_).

[RandySF]

26. The Purge

[sheshe2]

27. Dead Zone-Stephen King

The missiles are flying.

[SWBTATTReg]

28. Hmmm, interesting movie, The missiles are flying. Got to rent it or watch it on Netflix. NT

[YorkRd]

29. Phillip K Dick's "Kill All Others" on Amazon

Also Phillip K Dick’s “Man n the High Castle” and “ Through a Scanner Darkly” all loosely based on his works.

[Meowmee]

30. I don't think there is one really

But the invasion of the body snatchers popped into my head lol…

[Tarzanrock]

31. Delbert Mann's "Darkness at Noon."

The 1955 Producer's Showcase for television aired the film production of Arthur Koestler's 1940 masterpiece: "Darkness at Noon."
"On May 2, 1955, as its tenth production, Producers' Showcase aired Darkness at Noon, an adaptation of Arthur Koestler's chilling 1940 novel about persecution in the Soviet Union during Stalin's Great Purge. Darkness at Noon was directed by Delbert Mann from a script by Robert Alan Aurthur (based in turn on the stage play by Sidney Kingsley), and starred Lee J. Cobb as Rubashov, a former high-ranking Party official now in prison, charged with treason for betraying the cause."

Fabulous direction from Delbert Mann and a most impressive cast besides Lee J. Cobb: Ruth Roman; David Wayne; Oscar Homolka;Joseph Wiseman; Nehemiah Persoff; and, Henry Silva.
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2021/02/the-descent-into-hell-darkness-at-noon.html