I'm glad we ended the class with satire (mainly because we watched Idiocracy). The film definitely paints a picture of what our world will look like in the (near) future. The film is one that I can constantly watch just because of how funny and scary it is, due to the somewhat realistic nature in which our society is heading. The cult film tells its jokes by using sci-fi tropes to make fun of hypothetical situations.
Sci-fi-centric films, in a sense, have it the easiest when parodying a subject, more or less because what they're making fun of hasn't exactly happened yet, even if it is something that could. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is another example of satire in the science fiction genre. The novel is about the absurdities of modern life, and how many things we find to be important in life are really just insignificant. Many of the situations in the book are direct representations of things that are or have been happening in real life, but since it's through the eyes of the future, it isn't seen as a direct statement. For example, the Vogons sole purpose is to block progress and to create paperwork, mirroring bureaucracy in their system of living.
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