Idiocracy (2006)
7/10
Demented and hilarious. Deliberately superficial
11 September 2022
Hilarious, intentionally stupid and demented film. The actors are convincing in a surreal setting where human stupidity is explained and shown the best this story could tell. It is not a challenging film; it is not a film that wants to make a mark. It is likeable, meant to be a pastime for those who enjoy demented humor. The plot is simple, straightforward and effective: An average soldier, average in every way, deliberately chosen for this characteristic of being in the middle, is frozen for a top-secret experiment. A prostitute will also be chosen to save on the budget, and both, to have no emotional or parental ties, will be perfect guinea pigs for a year of freezing. Thus it begins, because of the military's contacts with the prostitute's "pimp," the program will be eleminated and all staff who knew about it jailed. The two poor guinea pigs will be forgotten and left hundreds of years abandoned while the world falls apart. Smart people will not have children, aware of the responsibilities and costs involved. Idiots, on the other hand, will expand their families, an offspring of people with low IQs growing out of all proportion leading mankind to regress mentally and not even be able to formulate complex speeches and use complicated words.

Our protagonist will awaken in a world now far from the one he remembered and turn out to be the smartest person in existence.
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