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This article was amended on 23 July 2021. Idiocracy is available to stream in Australia via Google Play, Amazon and iTunes. One day future humans may very well ask – provided they are still capable of forming a sentence – why come we no listen? Will we heed the warning? In the cacophony of modern existence, with so much stupidity flying at us from so many directions, it’s difficult to be optimistic. The underlying message of course is that humans ought to take such things as science, research and knowledge seriously, lest we create our own Idiocracy. The jokes flow thick and fast and the premise, while a little one-note, never gets old. The film got bigger with time and became a cult hit, roughly mirroring the trajectory of Judge’s previous feature Office Space (which also achieved popularity only on home release). The film’s savage critique of American corporatisation may be why 20th Century Fox, its distributor, got cold feet and effectively buried it, releasing Idiocracy in just enough cinemas (without so much as a theatrical trailer) to satisfy contractual requirements. A Gatorade-like sports drink called Brawndo (the “thirst mutilator”) has replaced water people even water crops with it (which of course no longer grow).
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The most popular show on TV is called Ow, My Balls! and the current Oscar winner is a single unbroken shot of a naked butt. The restaurant chain Fuddruckers has changed its name to Buttfuckers. Fuck you!” Every time customers enter Costco, an employee at the door greets them with: “Welcome to Costco, I love you.” We see a billboard, for instance, with the spiel: “If you don’t smoke Tarrlytons. Many visual and verbal gags highlight a capitalist hellscape, in which language has basically become a function of advertising. When Camacho lets off rounds of an automatic rifle to get people’s attention in the House of Representatives (now called the “House of Representin’”), it’s hard not to think of the carnival US politics became under Trump. In a 2017 interview discussing the end of political correctness, Terry Crews – who plays President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho – described Idiocracy as “so prophetic in so many ways it actually scares people”.
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Also that famous quote often attributed to Charles Bukowski: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” In the current era I couldn’t help but think of the BirthStrikers, taking a reasoned response to the climate crisis while hordes of the hoi polloi refuse to accept there is even a problem. Observing that “evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence”, the narrator explains that “with no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most – and left the intelligent to become an endangered species”. less intelligent couple breeding like rabbits (“I thought youse was on the pill or some shit?”). Judge cuts between an intelligent adult couple discussing why they won’t be having children right now (“not with the market the way it is”) and a.
Suggesting that morons rather than nerds will inherit the earth, and that the results will be catastrophic, the film begins with a context-setting intro so real it hurts.
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