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submitted 2 weeks ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/movies@lemm.ee

Neon has set a Dec. 27 release date and released the trailer for Asif Kapadia’s (“Amy”) “2073,” a speculative sci-fi documentary that serves as a warning for a potentially dismal reality that lurks 49 years in the future.

Per an official logline, the film takes place in the year “‘2073,’ and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Kapadia transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Samantha Morton (“In America”) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality and global climate change. ‘2073’ is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.”

Naomi Ackie (“Blink Twice”) also stars with a script from Kapadia and Tony Grisoni. The film is inspired by Chris Marker’s seminal sci-fi film “La Jetée,” which follows a time traveler who attempts to alter the past to save his dismal present.

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[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Those are fancy terms, "speculative sci-fi documentary" and "speculative nonfiction", for what is clearly fiction.

Still it sounds intriguing, although a bit bleak.

[-] jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This sounds like an interesting movie. Although I would hesitate to call it a documentary.

I can never say no to dystopian cyberpunk media.

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