Science Fiction and Satire: Love Death and Robots


                       Satire and Sci-Fi go hand in hand since so much of Sci-Fi is about looking at the present through the eyes of the future, and with that comes hilarious opportunity to look at the present incorrectly or in more creative satyrical manner. In Idiocrocy the future is shown to be run complete morons who incorrectly interpret the remnants of human history before a devastating war incorrectly and in doing so the movie tries to tell us about the idiocy of humans now as well as in the future, how ever the recently released short Three Robots an episode in Netflix's new Tv anthology of animated shorts Love Death and Robots. In the short Three Robots, three robots are touring a post apocalyptic human city like it's a vacation spot, and as they go from one location to another they try making sense and analyzing the things they see, like the humans act of bouncing a ball which by excluding the in-depth cultural significants the level of skilled and athleticism involved in the sport, trivialize basketball down human's simply bouncing a ball. The whole episode is them doing this for everything from our digestive system to cats. Ultimately the satyrical message is one about are consumption of resources and destroying the planet, it is just done in a comical and well animated way. What I like about Three Robots in this case is that they aren't human but do have some connection to human's giving them and interesting perspective and way of delivering satire, vs future humans or anthropological aliens. Over all the sub-genre is a great platform for delivering messages and satire about modern issues.