They're the ones who overuse The Handmaid's Tale as a reference so I'm gonna say they're getting closer to V for Vendetta every dayhttps://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/1321887714992627713 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
i am darkly amused that even very cynical dystopias like V FOR VENDETTA and CHILDREN OF MEN imagine britain as the last island of stability in a world falling apart not like a shitty, unimportant island left behind by the world, stewing in its own sins
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
Oh that’s 100% what Children of Men depicts. And surviving the apocalypse is its own kind of torture. You’re assuming Brits see survival under those conditions as a good thing, whereas culturally I’ve found we view that as the worst-case scenario…
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Replying to @OneiricCanid @arthur_affect
the england of children of men is packed with refugees fleeing the even-more-fucked states of europe, so
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
*gestures to the “worst case scenario” label there* Island nation, xenophobia, etc. That’s a comment on current fears. The world it depicts is so terrible people are issued suicide kits by the government. I’d argue dying of the plague in that universe was a kindness.
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Replying to @OneiricCanid @arthur_affect
look i'm not arguing that CHILDREN OF MEN depicts a really deeply fucked britain where things are very bad i am saying that the text just says that britain is nevertheless the last bastion of order in an even more awful world
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
Oh you’re not wrong! I just think you’re mistaking that for a good thing when “I’d rather live directly underneath the mushroom cloud” is a sentiment that I’ve heard expressed w/ a degree of regularity and seems to be shared by many. Also, well, *gestures at Threads*
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Replying to @OneiricCanid @perdricof
You're missing what she's saying, which is that a REALLY cruel fate for the UK would for the rest of the world to be a happy, functioning utopia and the UK and the UK alone to be a failed state kept in quarantine behind a wall
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
Yes, that would be very cruel! Cruel in a highly motivated way, in fact! One which she appears to have decided to take out on the nearest target of opportunity.
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Also, both 28 Days and 28 Weeks Later both did exactly that. The latter explicitly features a quarantine by the US military, which a horny idiot breaks, and their napalming London. At the end it gets out because they’re too lenient, and is implied to have destroyed the world.
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Yeah, that's a good example
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