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Pete Wolf's avatar

Nice. The obvious gen X part is the last sentences, like "stop worrying and leave everything to someone — or something — that knows better". See where that took us. Btw, while on recent movies that are the epitomy of just that X-bit, try the triptych Paterson (2016), Fallen Leaves (2023) and Perfect Days (2023). Maybe worth a piece here.

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Lou Tilsley's avatar

I *was* expecting a piece on Back to the Future and have now read and digested that too. Thank you!

I’ve yet to watch Severance so I’ve skim read some of this to come back to later. It seems to me though that most dystopian tales need to be backward looking (at least in the modern day) because they have to reflect the loss of something but I like this take on it as a metaphor for bureaucracy. I also loved the etymology/entomology word play on computer bugs!

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