It’s a bit of a spoiler to say the movie ends with a solarpunk world, but that’s like saying “there’s a happy ending” is a spoiler. You know they’re going to resolve the conflict, it’s finding how they get there that’s the interesting part.

Also, I do like how a cyberpunk world is basically presented as the worst possible scenario and a solarpunk world is considered the best possible scenario. Personally, that’s the only way solarpunk makes sense to me, as a “and they lived happily ever after” world. Solarpunk, to me, feels like an ideal, an end goal. It isn’t a setting for a book/movie in my opinion since if there was conflict, I don’t think it’d be considered solarpunk. But that’s all my ignorant opinion, I’m no expert on solarpunk.

Anyway, this is primarily a time travel movie that spends most of its time in a desolate wasteland future trying to fix the cyberpunk present. I just like how it included both cyberpunk and solarpunk visuals. I should probably point out the bottom-half of the poster isn’t my idea of a solarpunk world, that’s the desolate wasteland future part of the movie.

I had originally watched this on Hulu and I know it had been available on Amazon Prime, but it seems the corporate overlords aren’t interested in streaming this movie this month so it’s only available on Hoopla right now. Oh, and here’s a trailer.

  • HammerjackOPMEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Thanks for clarifying! And yeah, in my ignorant opinion it seems the only conflict would arise from either a non-solarpunk world striving to become solarpunk or a solarpunk world striving to remain solarpunk. In both scenarios, solarpunk still seems to be the ideal and not so much the setting. That’s in contrast to a cyberpunk world where the setting itself is in conflict, with fighting to survive and warring megacorporations.

    • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net
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      9 months ago

      I don’t think a society is ever really ‘complete’ (I think improving it is a neverending process with a lot of backsliding, failures, and arguing involved) but to the extent that it can be, I’d say solarpunk includes the path there, as much as or more than the ‘finished product’. At least in the stuff I’ve read. The societies tend to be realistically flawed, even if they’re doing some stuff better than we are now.