A Dismal Future

I was tired of coming across all these quotes and references to "The Matrix" in books and being clueless about them, so last night we finally saw the movie. I now wonder why so many movies set in the future are so dreary. Not the movies themselves, necessarily; but film directors apparently see the future as a place where someone or something has absolute control over humans (books also; 1984) and everything is dark and rundown. Think of "Blade Runner" and "Minority Report", "The Island" and "I, Robot"; even the future-future section of "Meet the Robinsons" was all dark and reddish. One notable exception is the Star Wars series, which actually dared to show lush vegetation at one point, but even that was on a more 'primitive' type of planet. Sorry, moon.

It's interesting how so many filmmakers don't see the future as a very bright place.