There’s a disturbing plausibility to director Asif Kapadia’s docudrama 2073, which just premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival.
It’s set 49 years in the future, a time when surveillance drones swarm the skies and shock troops keep the order, truncheons in hand.
We’re not in America anymore. Welcome to “New San Francisco – Capital of the Americas.” Old geographic boundaries have dissolved, apparently, but not because we’ve all come together as one.
No, the S.F. location hints at a future where Silicon Valley and its tech bro billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel have achieved hegemony, in alliance with authoritarian political leaders (for reference, see Putin, Vladimir and his ecosystem of oligarchs).
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