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Mike Judge’s 2006 satire “Idiocracy” has topped a recent New York Times poll asking users which film is the one that best exemplifies the ‘American experience’.
Over 3000 readers participated in the New York Times poll to mark the 250th birthday of the United States of America.
Judge’s film emerged as a clear winner, with the low-budget dark comedy being seen as disturbingly prescient.
The film follows a librarian and a prostitute who undergo a government-run hibernation experiment and awaken five centuries later in a dystopian society.
It tackled themes of anti-intellectualism, media-driven politics, corporations branding and monetising everything, consumerism as identity, bureaucratic decay, declining education, declining human competence and so many other things that seem to be playing out more and more these days.
The film beat out the likes of “American Graffiti,” “Do the Right Thing,” “Dr. Strangelove,” “Easy Rider,” “The Godfather,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Network” for the honor.
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