Idiocracy story
Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and co-written by Judge and Etan Cohen. Synopsis: A US Army librarian and a sex worker take part in a government hibernation experiment. The experiment goes awry and he and the sex worker awaken in the year 2505, in a dystopian world that is incredibly dumbed-down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming, to find that he has become the smartest man on the planet.
22 total · 7 major · 15 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| anti-intellectualism in society | major | The story is a satire on anti-intellectualism in American society. Joe woke up in the year 2505 to find the American population had become suspicious and contemptuous of anything not overtly crass. |
| atrophied civilization | major | Joe woke up in the year 2505 in a dystopian world where the population was incredibly dumbed-down by mass consumerism and mindless television shows to the point where nobody understood the institutions and machines on which they depended, and everything was breaking down. |
| commercialism in society | major | The story is a satire on commercialism in American society. Joe woke up in the year 2505 to find that Americans wallowing in overconsumption and crass popular entertainment. |
| dystopia | major | Joe and Rita woke up in the year 2505 in a dystopian world where the population was incredibly dumbed-down by mass consumerism and mindless television shows. |
| form of government | major | Joe and Rita woke up in the year 2505 in kakistocratic United States. |
| prostitution | major | The story repeatedly makes light of the main character Rita being a sex worker. |
| what if I found myself in the future | major | Joe and Rita woke up 500 years in the future in the year 2505 to find that the United States populated by mindless morons. |
| being on the run from the law | minor | Joe briefly went on the run from the law in the immediate aftermath of his escape from prison. |
| compound interest | minor | Joe struggled to make clear to the hopelessly moronic Frito how a bank account opened 500 years ago would presently be worth billions of dollars because of accumulated interest. |
| corporation interfering in politics | minor | It was revealed that the Brawndo corporation parent company owned the FDA, FCC, and USDA. |