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The Pod Generation envisions the future as an egalitarian dystopia of the soul

A man and a woman wearing headphones and sitting on separate loveseats as they stroke and awe at a massive, gleaming egg placed on a table between them. Behind the couple is a woman gazing down at them both while she tells them about what they’re hearing from the egg. Around them all you can see that they’re in some sort of luxury showroom for the strange eggs, more of which line the wall in holsters in the distance.

Chiwetel Ejiofor. Rosalie Craig, and Emilia Clarke in The Pod Generation. | Image: MK2

In writer / director Sophie Barthes’ peculiar new sci-fi satire The Pod Generation, there’s little doubt or disagreement about how overworked, hyper-surveilled, and disconnected from nature many people are. Set in a near future where things like freshly 3D-printed toast have become the norm, most everyone understands how deeply messed up it is that their child-obsessed society’s given up on any semblance of a public educational system. People who have quality healthcare through their jobs know that they’re a privileged class, and it’s no secret how that kind of stratification can be harmful. It’s just that people are far, far too enamored with and preoccupied by the beautifully designed technology that controls most aspects of their...

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