What was the point of this movie? I think the saddest thing was that they all wanted to bite it together. I would be doing my own thing and not hanging out with these people. Also, surprised the stores were still open, gas was still available for their cars, and electricity was running up until the very last minute.
I wasn't sure if this was an anti-vaxxer movie or social commentary on homeless and immigrants in the UK.
The point of the movie, as I mentioned in another thread, was that people need to think for themselves. The ONLY people in this movie who survived did so by not "drinking the Kool-Aid," ie not just blindly doing with authority tells them to do. The movie is attempting to empower people to not be sheep, not just surrender all of their will to someone else, particularly those in power. The whole movie shows what happens when people become "sheeple" and how damaging it can be to society. "Following orders" ended the vast majority of people's lives because they just accepted what their government told them and willingly killed themselves, in the hope of avoiding the "horrors" of a gruesome death. If more people thought for themselves, they wouldn't have believed what their government told them without any attempt at challenging the "truth" presented to them...
The whole movie could be seen as a modern retelling of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. All the people in the world are metaphorically chained to a wall, accepting the "shadows" their captors showed them on the wall as their entire reality, without looking for the truth beyond the surface.
And from a psychological perspective, it's an example of toxic "Groupthink." When people in large groups are conned by the powers that be into doing things they wouldn't ordinarily do, had they not been socially pressured to do so, they doom their society.
THAT is the point of the movie.
Cool explanation. Thanks 🙏
shareIts a pretty shit example of "not being a sheeple"
"hey what happen if the government issued a kill-pill to everyone and told them to eat it ?
only the smart would survive!
learn your lessons sheeple!
Governments are not generally out to kill 100% of their citizens
Have you got any real world examples of where the lesson to be learned in this movie might have applied?
I don't think it necessarily is meant to be taken literally. No, govts are not generally giving their residents kill pills, but they DO expect us to "just do as you're told" when it comes to societal expectations. "Don't think for yourself, just trust us..." When we KNOW that history has shown that our govts are not always (or ever?) doing things that are in their country's best interest. The writer of this movie is telling us that trusting in someone else to always do what's in our best interest has been, can be, and will be detrimental to us as individuals. The point is, doing as you're told without question is unwise, because the person who told you to do so may not have YOUR best interests in mind. It's our duty to responsibility to question things that go against our beliefs. Otherwise we can be led to do terrible things to ourselves, to others, under the impression that there's no other way, when in reality, there usually IS another way that's better.
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