UnspokenSoliloquy
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I've decided to create a thread about predictive programming through movies and tv since we already have one about music.
Im a huge sci-fi fan. A majority of the movies and television shows I watch as science based context. There are a lot of references that Im noticing that are the similar across the platforms of all the shows that I watch and I want to highlight them. Hopefully you guys have noticed it too, I'll try not to give spoilers but just to discuss the topic and list all the movies and tv shows that I've watch with these elements.
The way "the future" is portrayed through recent films and tv shows is nothing to look forward. Not to me anyway. It's great to see technology advancing, but a lot of what I see are restrictions created upon society where they have to struggle for survival, more so than now. This post might be long, but I will try to touch on everything.
The newest and most recent topic that is repetitive is the transferring of conscious mind.
The first place that I saw it was on Season 4 of the Flash with the Thinker. He basically uses a machine to transfer his consciousness into peoples bodies. He's able to essential absorb their knowledge and abilities and control their bodies. The Flash series never revealed if the people that were conquered were still "alive" after consciousness was transferred but The Thinker could also take someone else mind and transfer it to himself and in those cases, the person died.
In Netflix's new show Altered Carbon, it is kind of the same premise. There is a futuristic society where people have the ability to switch "sleeves" because they are able to transfer their consciousness to custom bodies.
I watch Pacific Rim: Uprising *Spoiler alert* which had similar connotations, the alien species was able to transfer their mind to a human to eccentially control them.
In "Ready Player One" (awesome movie btw, check it out): consciousness was also transferred and used to create a virtual reality.
War
Most of the futuristic films are the after effects of a War. Whether it's war between countries or war with another species. The future people is a remnant after the war.
Multidimension
Im used to talks of multidimensional societies because I love time travel concepts, so in this context multiple dementions are always discussed in the case of time travel, when you go back in time, you create other timelines and dimensions when you make changes.The world as it originally was continues on, but in a different timeline.
Lately, multiple dimensions have been reintroduced in the case of housing other life forms--in Pacific Rim:Uprising, The Cloverfield Paradox, A Wrinkle in Time, and a little in Flatliners
Secret Society
The implications of a secret society or powers that be are implied more. Ive seen this in the tv show Timeless on NBC about a secret society called Written house who go back in time changing events in history to orchestrate this ultimate plan of a Utopian world which involves getting rid of the people considered "useless." Another show called 12 Monkeys is based around a secret society who also go back in time trying to change history to create a dismal future, this society of 12 babies were born to protect and carry on the teachings of "The Witness" who turns out to be the future son of the main characters. 12 Monkeys is creepy, I think it has a lot of symbolism. They constantly talk about a red forest which me remind me of a Paramore song Caught in the Middle. She sings a line that says, "I was dreaming life away, All the while just going blind ,Can't see the forest for the trees, Behind the lids of my own eyes" This makes me think of the red forest for some reason. I dont like to look at it when it shows on screen, because I think something subliminal is happening. In Geostorms, they actually included government conspiracy in the plot. Geostorms was about man made storms. *spoiler alert* the government using storms as weapons.
Virtual Reality
This connects with consciousness a little, but this has more to do with the technology side, where we are able to be immersed in things without actually being there and this is normally in the high action and super hero movies. Ive seen it at its best in "Ready Player One" the virtual world that was created is the new Matrix. I thought of it as a wall with in a wall, as the real world being a Matrix of its own in it restrictions and contains, and then creating a virtual Matrix as a distraction of the real world matrix. Literally a 3 dimensional internet. Virtual reality is used in most of the super hero and action films. Valerian and the city of 1000 planets
5
I don't know if there is any significance in the concept of 5, but there tends to be 5 people used in these type of futuristic dystopian societies. The heroes or rebels start off as 5 people. Ive seen it in The Maze Runner: Death Cure, Ready Player One, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Divergent Series, and The Black Panther.
Lack of Religion
A common theme is the future has no religion. Man does everything.
The world is different, but humans are the same.
This one is funny to me, because it goes to show war, technology, ideology, government, aliens and what ever else, can't change humans.
No matter how the society advances and the world changes humans by nature stays the same, but we fool ourselves into thinking that we have become better because the technology is better.
Transhumanism
The last point brings me to transhumanism, the idea of merging with machine or another biological species. This also goes hand in had with transferring consciousness because it's using the mind to control a machine as well as being merged with machines or merged with other creatures to enhance the human.
Let me know guys if there are other ideas you've noticed.
Im a huge sci-fi fan. A majority of the movies and television shows I watch as science based context. There are a lot of references that Im noticing that are the similar across the platforms of all the shows that I watch and I want to highlight them. Hopefully you guys have noticed it too, I'll try not to give spoilers but just to discuss the topic and list all the movies and tv shows that I've watch with these elements.
The way "the future" is portrayed through recent films and tv shows is nothing to look forward. Not to me anyway. It's great to see technology advancing, but a lot of what I see are restrictions created upon society where they have to struggle for survival, more so than now. This post might be long, but I will try to touch on everything.
The newest and most recent topic that is repetitive is the transferring of conscious mind.
The first place that I saw it was on Season 4 of the Flash with the Thinker. He basically uses a machine to transfer his consciousness into peoples bodies. He's able to essential absorb their knowledge and abilities and control their bodies. The Flash series never revealed if the people that were conquered were still "alive" after consciousness was transferred but The Thinker could also take someone else mind and transfer it to himself and in those cases, the person died.
In Netflix's new show Altered Carbon, it is kind of the same premise. There is a futuristic society where people have the ability to switch "sleeves" because they are able to transfer their consciousness to custom bodies.
I watch Pacific Rim: Uprising *Spoiler alert* which had similar connotations, the alien species was able to transfer their mind to a human to eccentially control them.
In "Ready Player One" (awesome movie btw, check it out): consciousness was also transferred and used to create a virtual reality.
War
Most of the futuristic films are the after effects of a War. Whether it's war between countries or war with another species. The future people is a remnant after the war.
Multidimension
Im used to talks of multidimensional societies because I love time travel concepts, so in this context multiple dementions are always discussed in the case of time travel, when you go back in time, you create other timelines and dimensions when you make changes.The world as it originally was continues on, but in a different timeline.
Lately, multiple dimensions have been reintroduced in the case of housing other life forms--in Pacific Rim:Uprising, The Cloverfield Paradox, A Wrinkle in Time, and a little in Flatliners
Secret Society
The implications of a secret society or powers that be are implied more. Ive seen this in the tv show Timeless on NBC about a secret society called Written house who go back in time changing events in history to orchestrate this ultimate plan of a Utopian world which involves getting rid of the people considered "useless." Another show called 12 Monkeys is based around a secret society who also go back in time trying to change history to create a dismal future, this society of 12 babies were born to protect and carry on the teachings of "The Witness" who turns out to be the future son of the main characters. 12 Monkeys is creepy, I think it has a lot of symbolism. They constantly talk about a red forest which me remind me of a Paramore song Caught in the Middle. She sings a line that says, "I was dreaming life away, All the while just going blind ,Can't see the forest for the trees, Behind the lids of my own eyes" This makes me think of the red forest for some reason. I dont like to look at it when it shows on screen, because I think something subliminal is happening. In Geostorms, they actually included government conspiracy in the plot. Geostorms was about man made storms. *spoiler alert* the government using storms as weapons.
Virtual Reality
This connects with consciousness a little, but this has more to do with the technology side, where we are able to be immersed in things without actually being there and this is normally in the high action and super hero movies. Ive seen it at its best in "Ready Player One" the virtual world that was created is the new Matrix. I thought of it as a wall with in a wall, as the real world being a Matrix of its own in it restrictions and contains, and then creating a virtual Matrix as a distraction of the real world matrix. Literally a 3 dimensional internet. Virtual reality is used in most of the super hero and action films. Valerian and the city of 1000 planets
5
I don't know if there is any significance in the concept of 5, but there tends to be 5 people used in these type of futuristic dystopian societies. The heroes or rebels start off as 5 people. Ive seen it in The Maze Runner: Death Cure, Ready Player One, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Divergent Series, and The Black Panther.
Lack of Religion
A common theme is the future has no religion. Man does everything.
The world is different, but humans are the same.
This one is funny to me, because it goes to show war, technology, ideology, government, aliens and what ever else, can't change humans.
No matter how the society advances and the world changes humans by nature stays the same, but we fool ourselves into thinking that we have become better because the technology is better.
Transhumanism
The last point brings me to transhumanism, the idea of merging with machine or another biological species. This also goes hand in had with transferring consciousness because it's using the mind to control a machine as well as being merged with machines or merged with other creatures to enhance the human.
Let me know guys if there are other ideas you've noticed.