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  "description": "I wanted a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie, I got a pre-apocalyptic documentary shouting at the viewer to turn back from a briefly previewed future dystopia that we're sprinting towards. It doesn't work perfectly, but it is deeply depressing. Asif Kapadia splices together present-day (and I mean hey it's 2024 and the world's falling apart present-day) footage and layers brief vignettes anchored by Samantha Morton's \"Ghost\" living in a destroyed shopping mall in the year of the film's title. Unfortunately, it's heavy-handed and doesn't quite work . I am oh so sympathetic to what the film is aiming for — we have a crumbling climate, rising fascism, tech leaders in power who absolutely shouldn't be — and this is a cry for action, a plea for action and yet, this feels (at least as a creative work) quite forced. I'm writing this as we're expecting 80-100mph winds in LA and Ventura County (where I live) and we're hoping the power stays on, that no catastrophe like last month's fire re-occurs. Will we avoid another fire because the last one burnt out all the fuel? Who the hell knows? Do we have a functioning society? Barely, I guess. Did we just re-elect a fascist? Yeah, quite depressingly. Are we soberly assessing the future we face and addressing it effectively? No, we're blaming anyone we can short of ourselves. Would we be better off with a functioning 4th estate and no social media? Yeah, we quite likely would. What we do have is a decimated journalism industry and a social media ecosystem that co-opted what little revenue said industry had before jettisoning any interest in truth or social good. I'm worried for the future and I'm doing what I can, but both concerns are independent of this film. I sympathize, but I'm not moved.",
  "path": "/watching/movies/2073-2024",
  "publishedAt": "2025-01-07T14:38:54Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:sttgf52vkk46f6yuknvqxvgh/site.standard.publication/self",
  "tags": [
    "scifi",
    "drama",
    "documentary"
  ],
  "title": "2073"
}