Idiocracy
was about a man named Joe Bauer, who was working an everyday job for the
military and was picked to be part of an experiment seeing if humans could be
frozen for long periods of time. When
the experiment was forgotten, Joe ended up having been frozen for over 2000
years. The new world he woke up in was
much different. People had grown stupid and lost knowledge of how things work
in the world. They had forgotten simple
things like how water is good for you, and things like that. This was all due to people believing too much
in advertising and big companies.
The
humor is crude, bathroom humor as well as situational humor. Things such as continually kicking a man in
the crotch are displayed as funny in the movie because the people of the future
are so dim-witted that this is seen as funny.
It is in this setting that this is comical because you think people in
the future will be more sophisticated and would not stoop so low as to join in
that type of humor.
This
Post-Apocalyptic movie takes a different approach to depicting the future. It is man’s laziness and lack of interest
that causes mankind to fall into a pathetic way of living. Instead of a world void of good things
because of a nuclear war or of environmental disaster, the world is barren
because people have not taken care of the earth in the way that they should and
only focus on their own well-beings.
It
also has a play on names, such as Joe.
The movie makes a play on names that an average person or “Average JOE”
could come and help in great ways; they just have to be motivated to do
so.
The
movie also uses hyperbole that big companies can corrupt people convincing the
people of ridiculous ideas. For example
the Gatorade energy drink convinces people that they no longer require water to
drink or be healthy.
Overall
the movie Idiocracy is very funny and gives a new perspective to the way things
are headed and how badly people can begin to look into brands, advertising and
their own selfish wellbeing.
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