Death to 2020, a few thoughts

Brice 2022-12-20 20:00:10

There is a new "documentary" on Netflix, Death to 2020. What the Black Mirror team did basically recap the major events that happened in the 2020 (British and American) world, pinching a few fairly representative fictional characters to make brief comments. Hugh Grant played a (pseudo) history professor in it. Strangely, his aging appearance here is not good at all, but I feel a bit of his charm strangely. The Pheobe actor played a role similar to the (former) White House spokesperson, with a very distinctive way of speaking.

Because I am in it, no matter how absurd the plot is, I know that it is not groundless. Ten years later, when people look at it, they don't know what they think.

The short, thrilling 2020 is actually not enough for a full-length movie. It's worth seeing.

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Death to 2020 quotes

  • Tennyson Foss: Polarization is the problem of our age. And not just in America, in the actual world too. Whether the debate is over Trump or Brexit or science or gender, God help us, or reality itself, no two factions can agree, or agree to disagree, or even agree that their disagreement might be disagreeable.

    Director: I'm not sure I totally agree.

    Tennyson Foss: Well, then why don't you fuck off?

  • Narrator: Throughout 2020, the gods of Silicon Valley stand accused of allowing their products to split the world into two warring factions.

    Bark Multiverse: Um.. Actually it's more like four warring factions. We prefer to call it a hate spectrum. That's the official term.

    Director: Right now it takes about six months' exposure to social media for the average person to become hopelessly radicalized.

    Bark Multiverse: I know right? We're hoping to get that down to five minutes.