Klara Jagovit: future

Blade Runner

Tell us the future, we ask now and again the fortune tellers, whom we partially trust, holding our hopes higher than our reason. If The Jetsons' cartoon reality of video conferences, internet schooling, application shopping, and robotic machines doing our kitchen chores came true, other scenarios might also turn into reality. The world consisting of humans and androids is not so difficult to imagine. The world cut to fit your size in terms of your cravings and wildest dreams is a must if we want millions appeased and satisfied. Finally, the world where everything is controlled and regulated, as we tend to colonize what is yet uncolonized and it seems that in time we just make this control stricter. Science, technology, and social rules, however, won't wipe out the inborn need to belong and layers of self-consciousness, posing constant questions about identity. And that will make you rebel regardless of the times you live in. Two films thirty-five years apart, proving that we're not there yet. Let's wait for the year 2049 or another film. Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.

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Gattaca

brothers 04:19:00

Imagine a world where your genes determine what kind of profession and lifestyle you are going to have. There are no job interviews, no doubts, no dreams. A simple blood test outlines your professional path and there's nothing to discuss. Either you're a champion or you're a loser. You can design your perfect child and this perfect child can be put on the road to success. You can see that nature is full of flaws and in comparison with genetic modifications, it fails to create perfection. But what if your dreams surpassed your inborn abilities and you wanted a better life for yourself? What if there was a plan to deceive the system? Why talent and predispositions are not enough and to achieve what you dream about you need a very strong will, luck, and one or two lies? Gattaca.

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Mortal Engines

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Time flies by so fast that it's difficult to keep track of its flow. What now can be seen in musea was used every day by thousands of us, not even expecting what the future holds and how today will look like. Our present will also be someone else's past, possibly even a distant past. Our fascinations and philosophies will be seen as basic and out-dated, our technology will fill the shelves of galleries and our clothes and food will be the center attention for school trips for children, organized to extend the curriculum of classes if there will be such. How the world will look like hundreds of years from now? How our inventions will influence the inventions from the future? Can you imagine moving cities on wheels on shifted continents and London, being one of these cities, facing a catastrophe caused by flawed and corrupted politics? Based on Philip's Reeve novel, with a bullet of Peter's Jackson film-making capabilities, the adventure of the future. Mortal Engines, enjoy.

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The Matrix

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We waged various wars. Some of them started because of a woman, some began due to religious conflicts, others sprang out of individual ambition to conquer and dominate. Recently, we have witnessed the war of terror with few open conflicts but many individual cases of bomb explosions, hijacked planes, and trucks running into innocent trespassers of the wrong place and the wrong time. The world is changing and the way war is conducted has also changed, proving that feelings of fear, hatred, aggression, and revenge are never put to sleep. Technology also revolutionized our lives to the extent that we live double lives, one online, another in real life, leaving our ability to put food on the table at the mercy of online banking. The lines between the two worlds are getting blurry. Maybe our future is also to be programmed as a programme and deal with machines of their own intelligence?

A phenomenon of the Matrix, one internet hacker's destiny to become the savior of the hopeful waiting for the end of the war. A still unrepeated achievement of technology where everything is possible, a philosophical fable about the power of faith and control of your choices, and one of the most passionate, reliable, and caring relationships pictured in the science fiction film history. Leaving us obsessed for years, 1999's film, followed by 2003's The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

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Pacific Rim

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When gianormous creatures destroy your habitat, you gather your forces together. You experiment with technology, intelligence, compatibility of your peers, and human strength. You create a weapon. Every weapon is the extension of the human body: a knife: an extension of nails and hands, a spear: of an arm, a bow, gun, missile: a combination of the former with a bigger impact and a larger scale. The human imagination created another extension: a Jaeger: operated by a human brain and body, able to crash the monsters of the underwater world. An appreciation of the human intelligence, the fact that women can be equally good as men even in the seemingly masculine tasks, and a whole lot of positive ideals in the battle against the forces of nature. While some science-fiction ideas actually came true, we should wait for what the future holds. Maybe we will also need a hyper-innovative extension of ourselves to last millennia. A 2013 film with a 2018 sequel, Pacific Rim.

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Ready Player One

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Do you remember Second Life where you could completely change your looks, integrate with people all over the world and turn your boring existence into an exciting adventure where there are no limits? Remember the thrill of the Sims, which gave you endless possibilities of social interaction and rise to wealth? Finally, do you still feel the pang of fear mixed with adrenaline while completing a virtual race and reaching a virtual finish line? It is now a fact that we jump between two worlds, we meet online, we get married in real life, we order goods online to appreciate purchase in the real world. Fancy a reality of the future of both worlds: virtual and real, which developed significantly for the cyberspace, leaving the real world behind? Classic Spielberg's fun and quite a possible scenario for the future. Ready Player One.

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Człowiek z magicznym pudełkiem/The Man With The Magic Box

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Imagine that you can take a trip to the future where everything you know is different from what you're used to. Imagine that the things available in your time are no longer available in another time, the work that you used to do is impossible, as there are different services required. What was free is now considered a luxury and what was taken for granted is hard to find. Times change, you no longer feel free and comfortable. The only thing that doesn't change is the fact that you are a human being and you are subjected to the same spurt of emotions. Despite the time, despite technology and change. A love story, which in the loveless surroundings of our offices, hard chairs of conference rooms, and cities crowded with anonymous individuals, can happen to us all. Enjoy.

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What Happened to Monday

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The rise of the world population is now a fact. There are going to be more and more people. Remember this year and count us in twenty, thirty or fifty years from now. Will there be enough food to feed each and every mouth, will we have enough resources to heat our houses, start cars and public transport, and finally will there be enough places to house all of us, especially when some big cities are even now undergoing a big housing crisis? In China, there was a one child policy when the government tried to keep control over the number of people. Will it be our fate or the fate of our families to be reduced to only one offspring? Now, when you'd rather get social benefits for extra children, is it possible that some time from now you will be punished for wanting to have a bigger family? A probable concept in a hostile world when someone was brave enough to break the rules. What Happened to Monday.

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Passengers/ The Island

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Have you already thought about the future? Maybe you live day by day, ignorant of the skyscrapers built behind the window of your apartment, magnetic trains cutting the commuting distance to nanoseconds, 3d printers which can produce everything from weapons to clothes and prostheses? Maybe the world dominated by plastic surgery, beauty enhancing procedures, the internet and the development of technology escaped your always absent mind. Look around. Admit that something has changed. Then take a step further.

What would happen if our planet was uninhabitable and the only possibility of saving civilization was billions of kilometers away? What would happen if people had copies of themselves in the case of an accident and fatal disease? Can we plan and preserve everything which is there to perish? Can we devote some human beings for the sake of others? Can we hibernate for decades, allured by the possibility of a better future later in time?

But what if things got a little bit out of control? Where's the thin line between morals of science and technology, and individual consciousness? And who says you don't have the right to live your life as you wish? Two sci-fi adventures, romances and some food for thought. What about your future?

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Perfect Sense

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Can you imagine your day without the taste of your favorite coffee? Can you picture your life without smelling your beloved ones lying next to you in your bed? (If they stink that's a completely different matter) Can you do away with the sound of your music? Can you finally imagine losing all the pictures that surround you, forgetting the faces of your family members and friends? Is it the poverty that is the worst thing that can happen to you? Is it the loss of your house? A divorce? Think twice. Maybe health is all that you need, as all the richness of the world can be perceived only by your senses. What does it mean to lose them all?

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The Lobster

Ben Whishaw 08:52:00

Finding the right partner is hard. Matching characters and mutual interests are not always the basis for a love-affair. There are a lot of minute differences and variables which make forming a lasting relationship almost an impossibility, even if we pretend that we have something in common. But what if being single was subjected to punishment? What if the ideology of a couple was preferable and the single life doomed to discrimination and eternal seclusion? What if there were places where kiss, sex and falling in love were forbidden? Which camp would be the right place for you? A brilliant film showing us how ridiculous we are in the pursuit of socially accepted happiness. Is the dystopian scenario really that far from reality? The Lobster.

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Stargate

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Science allowed us to treat diseases which we were incapable of curing years before. It enabled us to contact each other over a long distance, to travel thousands of kilometers within days and to cut the publishing process and distribution of digital press to seconds. Possibly it could enable us to travel through time and galaxies. What if in Egypt there was an entrance to a completely different world, obeying utterly different rules? What if your seemingly peaceful, scientific life was to be turned upside down by the adventure of a lifetime? What if you discovered Stargate?

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The Survivalist

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Europe's population growth has been falling for some time now. The mass migration has boosted the numbers of inhabitants to some extent. But if the numbers don't stop dropping? What if next decades bring us less and less newborns? Will the generation age? Will people have problems with feeding those who remain? Will they be humane to others and which instincts are they going to follow in their wish to survive? Do love, compassion, and friendship have any chance to run interpersonal skills and why the lesser evil is sometimes the last resort? The Survivalist.

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Selfless

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Imagine that your life comes to an end. Your life adventure fades slowly and you are to abandon your body, your beloved and all the things you're used to. When it comes to death, everybody is equal. No money can guarantee you a longer life, no gold can grant you a journey full of happiness and fortune. We came to this planet naked and naked we are going to leave it. But if you had a chance to prolong your time just a little bit longer, would you give all your money to have all this what theoretically money can't buy?

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Tomorrowland

adventure 10:00:00

When one side of the world is suffering from hunger, the other - from extreme obesity. When icebergs are melting, toxic fumes are spreading with a speed of turbojet to pollute the air we are breathing. When the poverty outweighs the richness and when there are no remedies to the presence that builds the dystopian future, there are still the ones who care and who act. A great adventure story for brainy kids/adults who are involved in something more than minding their own business. Tomorrowland.

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Cloud Atlas

Ben Whishaw 04:02:00

It's amazing how people are similar regardless of the passing of time. It strikes me every time that human instincts are just the same and we might be technologically more developed, know just a little bit more, either from experience or observation, but still, we commit sins of our kind. We hate, discriminate, we are inherently afraid of one another and these instincts we cultivate all the time. Cloud Atlas shows how struggles of each generation lead to a better future for the next one. When one door closes, another door opens. Films are a great way to show us past, present and future by means of images. They teach us that the past was not really that long ago and the future is not really that distant. Once we were a civilization where slavery, apartheid, tribal wars, the illegality of homosexuality was something to be dealt with on everyday basis. We change slowly, acquiring new information, accepting more differences. And hopefully, we will change and we won't allow winning those who are stuck in their basic human insecurities to hate, hurt and prejudice. A wise and beautiful film for an individual. If you want to make the world a better place, start from your own little universe.