Idiocracy Movie Review

 Mike Judge made this one too, so Gabe bought it on iTunes. A review of Idiocracy (2006) dir. Mike Judge.

Randies online like to look at anything Trump does and claim, "This is just like Idiocracy!" And I have to admit, they were onto something.

• Corporations have too much power over public life.
• Politics is more about entertainment than about justice or virtue.
• Our society is hypersexualized; every man, woman, and child is so porn-brained they can't even think straight anymore.
• People have very short attention spans. If it doesn't immediately grab you, you move onto something else.
• There's trash everywhere. (This was especially poignant, watching it in St. Paul, Minnesota.) 

But just because it's very accurate doesn't mean it's revolutionary. Most media that "predicted" something was just looking at the problems of its day and making jokes about it. We as a society haven't changed so much since 2006. The movie is a critique on "capitalism" (what teenagers on Reddit call greed), but it's also about society's inability to analyze itself and its own flaws. Everyone who promotes Idiocracy online exempts himself from its symptoms. Notice how most people that make the Trump-Idiocracy comparison online usually support abortion or have a "Be gay, do crime" sticker on their laptop. "Everybody is dumb except me."

The means by which we avoid an idiocracy is not by yelling about Donald Trump or big companies online. We must first learn to admit our blind spots and grow out of our own self-enlightenment. President Trump and TikTok were but a twinkle in the eyes of God when this movie came out; we cannot blame a few scant pieces of modern American society for our collapse. Our current political / cultural climate is accelerating towards an idiocracy for sure, but change comes from within. What is the LORD's monologue saying at the end of Job? Repent!

This movie is kinda ugly and sometimes annoying. All the CG looks like a PS3 game or a Nickelodeon cartoon. I'm leaning more towards PS3 game with how much brown there is everywhere. Wasn't very funny either. At least not compared of Office Space, which is both beautiful and hilarious.

This is the most centrist post on this site in its 13 years, so I can't help but review Idiocracy as a 5/10.