So, as part of the ek (sc / per) ritement, I looked for information on the 2006 film, which was not recognized by critics and distribution, but then became a meme classic and now has a rating of 6.8 / 10.
Briefly about its plot, for those who have not watched it (but it is better to watch it before reading this article, there is even a reload of it in VK): a standard man - a military man and a standard woman - a prostitute take part in a government, of course, secret experiment on freezing a person. A year was chosen for the initial sample. And then the volunteers are frozen, but then the base is closed and the experiment is forgotten for 500 years. Due to the gradual dullness of humanity, after 500 years, the average IQ is somewhere <10. Waking up in an unhappy future, the main characters solve his problems and everything ends well.
The film promotes the right thoughts: you need to monitor the state of your mind and consciousness, read books, develop and correct yourself, whoever you are.
But we're not here for the right thoughts, right?
So, in the film, very often they show humanity that is stupid to the point of not even being able to grow ordinary food, but robots, electronics, airplanes, cars, ministries, weapons, and so on are present in large numbers. How can this be? With a human standard IQ of 100, many people do not know how oil is extracted and refined, how airplanes fly and so on. How then can a person whose intelligence level is almost equal to that of ordinary monkeys know this?
So, on the Internet there are a couple of theories about this.
Promotional video:
Theory # 1: "Scientists still exist in 2505"
The theory is that the prologue film is trying to tell us, they say, But DNA is a rather interesting thing: even after generations, ancestor genes are capable of manifesting in DNA, because having received them in DNA once and then transferring information to the zygote, the chance of a genius is preserved. This theory appeals to that good boys and girls did not always look for the same good girls and boys. And because of this, "geniuses" sometimes appear, which move humanity forward, as evidenced by the presence in the world of a future IQ test aimed at elucidating the mental abilities of citizens.
(By the way, with the disappearance of smart people, homosexuality also disappeared, think about it)
Theory №2 "People use technologies of the past, customizing them for themselves"
Here I can almost see the caption under this theory of Captain O. There is a long discussion about simplifying technologies to an intuitive level, and then they just put on bright stickers and made them durable. However, this theory collapses because of the scene where the police just shoot down the plane and shoot the car, where there is no one. With this level of violence, these technologies should have disappeared!
Theory number 3 "Not 500 years have passed"
This theory suggests that the chronology at some point changed, because everything suspiciously remained similar to our days. This, the theory says, could have been influenced by the rewritten history.
This means that any US president could rewrite history for himself and add a “couple” of years to his rule.
Theory number 4 "Everyday"
In this section, I have included the most everyday theories such as "this is all an experiment within an experiment", "they died in freeze" and so on, so on, so on, that is to every thing in our world. You know.
Outcome
The film "Idiocracy" is rather strange even for our days, but it is not as simple as it seems at first glance. It is worth considering from the point of cultural heritage with Lupa and Pupa.
