Science fiction easily lends itself to incisive cynicism about our future.
It’s understandable.
Sci-fi is just one tool creators have to pull out today’s big issues and blow them up into a scenario that we can consider from a distance.
Still, too much grim introspection creates a feedback loop of depression when breakthroughs happen.
We begin to think about robot apocalypses and unstoppable viruses, tech magnates going supervillain, and “Black Mirror” episodes coming true.
Sometimes our paranoia is unfortunately justified, but we earn a chance to make it better.This form of sci-fi is meant to be cautionary, not depressive, but we’ve all been going through a lot lately, and it’s hard not to feel the weight of the world getting heavier.
So let’s have a nice day for once and look at some science fiction movies that leave us happier than we were before we pressed play.
These are
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