What’s your immediate thought upon hearing about a film called “Tomorrowland?” Another utopian tale, right? Well, apparently we have need of them. We need as many as we can get.
It’s not news that we’ve just about destroyed our planet. As of this writing, there’s yet another oil spill on the California coast, California and Brazil are almost out of water, and there’s an insane amount of volcanic and seismic activity happening around California.
Which is why, maybe, since Hollywood is in California, movies about escaping our sick planet Earth abound.
But, per the typical “Uh-oh, it’s Armageddon, let’s escape to a utopia” movie, this one’s also not what we could really use, namely, a common-sense approach to our global problem, like planting more trees and eating less meat.
“Tomorrowland” is just a variation on the fiddling-with-technology approach. You’ve got your space-station utopias (“Oblivion,” “Wall-E”), your take-a-wormhole-to-a-distant-planet utopia (“Interstellar”), and now we’ve got a parallel-dimension-hopping utopia.
