classic Singaporean energy to watch Minority Report and think that that’s a good thing that you should actually suggest that your government ought implement, nvm that the movie is literally about how such technology would be abused
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kinda wondering if people just don’t interpret dystopian fiction as a warning anymore, especially in TV or movie form. it’s the same issue as with war movies that try to show how war is hell: they make it look too good
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yup
Liars poker was a warning about finance and the author kept getting stopped in the streets by finance bros saying he inspired them to get into finance
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truly it is said, make movies about what you want to see more of
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or books and so forth, for some reason i was assuming this had been made into a movie but i guess not?
yeah wall st is the gordon gekko one right?
i don’t think wolf of wall st was ever seriously intended as a warning, it quite obviously makes the whole thing look like boatloads of fun. as much as i enjoyed it, maybe it should not have been legal to make that movie
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