Idiocracy(2006)
dir. Mike Judge
Anti-intellectualism, played out five centuries ahead.
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An average man wakes from hibernation 500 years in the future to find humanity's intelligence has collapsed so far that he's now the smartest person alive.
Why it’s here
A dumb comedy about the actual thing this whole catalog exists to resist — what happens when a culture stops valuing thinking at all. Funnier and more direct about anti-intellectualism than most films that take the subject seriously.
Where This Film Lives
- Themes
- conformitydystopia
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