Water is the trope at Traverse City Film Festival’s showing of Idiocracy

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - A funky dystopian comedy, Idiocracy heralds water as the common-sense solution to crop failure in a highly-privatized futuristic world. The film presents what the L.A. Times calls a “brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy” that culls “heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world where every inch of space, including mental, is mediated.” Idiocracy, a satire both earnest and ironical, makes light of and enlightens its viewers to the absurdity of water as a commodity. View clips and read more here.

Source: Traverse City Film Festival

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