‘Blade Runner’ and the creepiest dystopias sci-fi movies have left behind

In 1982, when Ridley Scott released “Blade Runner,” he envisioned a future, specifically 2019, where flying cars and intelligent robots would be what citizens of the past imagined the present would be. Not a utopia in which multinationals offered the best treatment to their workers and everyone lived in peace and harmony, but a reality in which capitalism has triumphed and everyone is subject to the regime of mega-companies.

While “Back to the Future” envisioned a world where technology had allowed society to live in peace,”Blade Runner’ proposed a dystopia decrepit and pessimistic, where the richest have gone to live off the planet, and the poor have remained on Earth, almost destroyed, without natural resources, and with diseases that kill and uproot the most vulnerable population every day

Blade Runner

The World of Ridley Scott, with Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, among others, in ‘Blade Runner’, one of the best sci-fi dystopias, or to put it correctly, cyberpunk, was a watershed in the genre. It is a story in which a detective must take charge of eliminating several androids that have infiltrated the Earth. Available on HBOMax.

Crazy Maximus

George Miller was another of those visionaries who, with ‘Crazy Maximus’, imagined one of the most disturbing dystopias. Starring Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky, this world is dangerously unsettling, not because of its explosive action, but because it’s a world where water is in short supply and the few survivors have banded together to fight for it. Available on HBOMax.

sons of men

Set in the year 2027, which is not far away from reaching it, Alfonso Cuarón premiered ‘Hijos de los hombres’ in 2006, a story about a world that is on the verge of extinction, thanks to the fact that men cannot the more they reproduce and the last baby hasn’t appeared in years. However, a woman is about to give birth and this could hold the key to humanity. Available on Claro and Apple TV.

Ghost in the shell

There are also several dystopias in the anime, such as ‘Ghost in the Shell’, the sci-fi film that influenced the story of ‘The Matrix’. It is a 1995 futuristic thriller directed by Mamoru Oshii, about Motoko Kusanagi, an agent who has to stop a computer hacker, who reveals to her that the border between human and machine consciousness is almost invisible. Available on Netflix.

The Hunger Games

Although rarely cited among the best science fiction, the saga of “The Hunger Games” is also about a dystopia from which many interesting conclusions can be drawn. For example, which is a world subjected to the entertainment regime, where the rich can see the poorest kill each other to survive, at least until they take up arms.