When all the smart people die off, all that is left is the dumb. Idiocracy came out in 2006 and is a mediocre satire. After 500 years, Joe Bower, an average guy played by Luke Wilson, wakes up from a government hibernation experiment to a dimwitted society where he is the smartest person alive. Although the acting in Idiocracy is phenomenal, the portrayal of society in the future is annoyingly exaggerated and the narrator’s voice over is unnecessary but understandable.
Starts off with Joe Bower (Luke Wilson) and Rita (Maya Rudolph) being chosen for a top secret government hibernation experiment, which they are supposed to sleep for a year. The man in charge of the experiment is arrested for being involved in a prostitution ring, and the experiment …show more content…
He shows how useless people became. His character, Frito, is so dumb that he asks, “What’s the minus of 30 and 20?” (Idiocracy). Joe tells him 80, and Frito believes him. By the end of the movie, you can see some slight changes in Frito. He makes an effort to try and read a sign on a wall: “Uh, rehabil--rehabiate—rehabilation” (Idiocracy). Even though he never correctly says rehabilitation, he is making an effort to use his brain.
Although, the plot is very creative and is a point of view that has not been explored through movies, it exaggerates the dumbing down of society. This exaggeration is expressed by how everyone believes that plants want electrolytes and does not know why. The belief of electrolytes is so dumb that it is on the verge of being insulting. Despite the flaws of the societal views the pace is perfect and the story is so easy to follow that the film could have done without the narrator.
The narrator restates things that are already known; he says that, “The economy was in a state of deep neglect, the dust bowl had ravaged food supplies, and the number one movie in the country was called Ass” (Idiocracy). In one scene, there is mountains of trash everywhere which is an obvious sign of neglect. There is a couple of dust storms, and Joe goes into the movie theatre that says ASS is playing. With the narrator saying what you see it does give the film the sense of how dumb the world
Starts off with Joe Bower (Luke Wilson) and Rita (Maya Rudolph) being chosen for a top secret government hibernation experiment, which they are supposed to sleep for a year. The man in charge of the experiment is arrested for being involved in a prostitution ring, and the experiment …show more content…
He shows how useless people became. His character, Frito, is so dumb that he asks, “What’s the minus of 30 and 20?” (Idiocracy). Joe tells him 80, and Frito believes him. By the end of the movie, you can see some slight changes in Frito. He makes an effort to try and read a sign on a wall: “Uh, rehabil--rehabiate—rehabilation” (Idiocracy). Even though he never correctly says rehabilitation, he is making an effort to use his brain.
Although, the plot is very creative and is a point of view that has not been explored through movies, it exaggerates the dumbing down of society. This exaggeration is expressed by how everyone believes that plants want electrolytes and does not know why. The belief of electrolytes is so dumb that it is on the verge of being insulting. Despite the flaws of the societal views the pace is perfect and the story is so easy to follow that the film could have done without the narrator.
The narrator restates things that are already known; he says that, “The economy was in a state of deep neglect, the dust bowl had ravaged food supplies, and the number one movie in the country was called Ass” (Idiocracy). In one scene, there is mountains of trash everywhere which is an obvious sign of neglect. There is a couple of dust storms, and Joe goes into the movie theatre that says ASS is playing. With the narrator saying what you see it does give the film the sense of how dumb the world