What would you call this genre?

[EyeSeeCold]

I noticed a similar theme in The Matrix, Mirror's Edge, and, partly, Kane & Lynch. I guess the words to describe it would be: "high rise, mega-capitalist sunny dystopian equality with an oblivious public and insignificant rebels fighting against the system".

I guess New York would be a common setting for such a genre, if it exists.

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[JoeJoe]

Cyber Punk Dystopia?

 

[SpaceYeti]

I'd call it the "Eff the system" or "Eff The Man" genre.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Cyber Punk Dystopia?

Yea this seems about right. The only thing is that cyber punk tends to be dark and gloomy, I was going for sunny and lonely(due to it being a huge environment).

I'd call it the "Eff the system" or "Eff The Man" genre.

i.e. punk?

 

[SpaceYeti]

i.e. punk?

Yeah, but "punk" isn't fun to say.

 

[JoeJoe]

Yea this seems about right. The only thing is that cyber punk tends to be dark and gloomy, I was going for sunny and lonely(due to it being a huge environment).

How many works of that genre actually exist? It seems more like an exception than the rule (i.e. subversion of the City Noir trope). Also, while the Matrix itself is sunny the real world is cold and dark...

 

[Anthile]

Post-Cyberpunk.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

How many works of that genre actually exist? It seems more like an exception than the rule (i.e. subversion of the City Noir trope). Also, while the Matrix itself is sunny the real world is cold and dark...

Yea this is what adds to the eeriness and absurdity, there's something that just isn't right. But I was just pointing out some correlations, I don't have a a ton of films under this tag. I think it is more of an exception.

 

[JoeJoe]

In brief: If you have a Crapsack World modeled on Japanese Zaibatsu where (most critically) technology is a method by which the power elite control the people, and the protagonists are entirely against said society, you have traditional Cyber Punk. If, however, you have a world that has some redeeming features, is not controlled by the State and/or Mega Corp, technology ISN'T screwing everything up, and the protagonists are trying to fix social problems from within rather than rebelling against society from without, you have Post Cyber Punk. Of course, there is plenty of overlap.

Ergo not Post Cyber Punk. More like Punk Post Cyber Punk, or Post Cyber Punk Dystopia...

 

[Wizardry]

Honestly, whenever I see anything like that it reminds me of Ghost in the Shell so I would be clever and call it GITS'ism. The surface world has a sense of calm but underneath there is some major war between people, cyborgs, and programs/ rogue AI's In fact....

YouTube - A Matrix and Ghost in the Shell Comparison

And classic GITS philosophy...This stuff was mindblowing for me as a young teen (missing some of my favorite scenes). Totally ignored it while she was running around naked and invisible...then they started talking about stuff and woooo. I couldn't stop thinking about this stuff for weeks.

YouTube - Ghost in the Shell (philosophical scenes)

YouTube - Philosophy of the Stand-Alone Complex

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I'm already into GITS, but thanks for bringing it up.