Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Beware the Rise of the Idiots

I saw Idiocracy a long time ago and actually enjoyed it. At the time, I had already grown passed fart jokes and laughing at random unnecessary vulgarities, but Idiocracy actually had a message and was a funny satire on our culture. I mean of course they had the random vulgarity, but it was warning us that we may be okay with that. For example, we would never think to see a restaurant named ButtFuckers, but in the 50's, we never thought we'd see two people in the same bed in movies, much less having sex! We are becoming more and more okay with things and we have to decide where to draw the line.
That's only one point though. The biggest point of the movie was to be funny and I definitely thought it was. The idea that the worlds population was dying from famine because a gatorade type company monopolized all the fluids of the world is hysterical. The idea that this world has slowly grown to not be able to take care of itself is not too dissimilar to what Pixar's Wall-E did. The people in that world all became fat and lazy, not knowing anything but what they saw on their computer screen. Probably one of the funniest ideas was that a person from our world, who has an average IQ and an average job could be considered the smartest man on earth. Seeing the world through his eyes was interesting. They put it nicely when they had the conversation about Einstein. They wondered if he walked around thinking everyone was a dumb-shit. Now, I didn't walk away from this movie thinking it was deep and metaphorical, raising plenty of questions about the way I live my life. I just thought it was a funny satire on our lifestyle and a fair warning of where we might be heading. Dr. Strangelove did the same thing, showing us what would happen if we accidentally went to nuclear war that we programmed to be unstoppable, thus causing the end of the world.

Idiocracy could be easily compared to Dr. Strangelove. If you don't see the satire and the intentional bizzare factor, you won't understand any of it at all and just think it's stupid.
Although, if opinions mattered, I'd say Dr. Strangelove is the better movie/satire.

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