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Realistic Utopian movies?


Looking for Utopian movies that are not not too sci-fi. For example: Tomorrowland is sci-fi.
I want to watch something more believable.

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It's discussed in the sisters brothers.

I think some Malick films have aspects of it as well like badlands, days of heaven and the new world.

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You're not gonna find it, sorry. The concept of a Utopian future in itself is unrealistic, which is one reason you will never find a film that portrays it realistically in any sense of the word.

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Films set in a Utopia tend to have a Dystopian underbelly. A lot of the early sci stories were critical of socialism and were warning against it as to have total security you give up freedom.

So films like Demolition Man is a good example a world where everything is perfect, but so sanitised people don't even touch to have sex. But then you see they also can't defend themselves.

Gattaca is another one.
Pleasantville.
In time.
Soylent Green is plausible in my opinion.

The time machine features a future world where at first it is all ideal. But then we see an under world where the creatures below prey on the perfect people above it. The perfect people (Eloi) are so dumb and passive they just accept that some of them will be taken by the Morlocks.

A Google search for Utopian set films will get you some lists.

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1984

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Realistic utopian movies. That's funny...

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Planet of the Apes.

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As you have called me a genius it behooves me to point out to you that 'Planet of the Apes' is a dystopian movie which is the opposite of a utopian movie.

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I was looking at it from the point of the apes.

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How species inclusivist of you. Your mother must be so proud...

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I do try.

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The Island (2005)

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The Beach, 2000

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I'm guilty of seeing that movie many, many times lol.

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