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Some of those intermediaries make no sense to me lol. Feels like they were just plopped in since they're 'dystopian'.
Why isn't Clockwork Orange directly between 1984 and BNW? It's all about drugs and gangs then law catching up to them in over the top ways. Why is Soylent Green there? Isn't that just full on eat people because we're recycling? How is that anything close to BNW? Maybe some brutalist efficient elements but that doesnt make sense for either 1984 or BNW. 1984 never had the sense of efficiency. It was all about gaslighting, false narrator, and an unknown system trying to make alternative facts...
The film doesn't make it clear, but the novel of A Clockwork Orange, it's definitely a dystopian future England which is turning into a police state because of the huge number of youth gangs.
This lemming reads.
The "recycling" in Soylent Green is due to global warming and overpopulation causing a bunch of food scarcity. It's definitely prescient in that way, but also weird in the context of the diagram.