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

  • 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.

  • Narrator: In a desperate bid for attention, the virus infects beloved Hollywood everyman and occasional CGI cowboy, Tom Hanks, providing news networks with an irresistible celebrity angle to the otherwise boring deadly pandemic.