During the infamous time of Covid-19, I watched a movie from the 1993 movie called Demolition Man and what's funny is can be seen as a possible future from 2020-21's perceptive.
The movie in the near future of 1996, an officer, John Spartan(Sylvester Stallone) is after a mass murder, Simon Phoenix(Wesley Snipes). Spartan got Phoenix captured after blowing up a mall and accidently killed some hostages. Spartan's superiors weren't happy about this and wanted to punish the man. There is a plot twist about the hostages but I need to stay on point. Anyways, both Spartan and Phoenix were sent to be punished by being put into cyro-freeze and release decades in the future.
Phoenix got released way too early in the year 2032 and he's out there causing chaos. The police needed to fight fire with fire and release Spartan but he is a fish out of water and having a hard time adjusting to the new world. It's very funny movie.
One of the things that it can be seen as a possible post-covid world is no one uses a high five. Instead, they hold their palms up a few feet from each other without touching and do a moving circle motion with it. This can be seen as avoiding contact to not spread germs.
One scene had Spartan invited by his partner, Lenina Huxley(Sandra Bullock) to her house to have "sex". It's really just them having VR headsets and experiencing "sex". Spartan was disturbed by this and brings up about actual physical sex and kissing. Huxley is grossed out about "fluid transfers" as she calls it and talks about STDs and unwanted pregnancy. Also getting pregnant is illegal unless you have a license and it has to be clean. This sounds similar to what I saw from the movie Future Cops where in order to prevent AIDS, sex is outlawed and everyone is a test-tube baby. Both came out the same year, so either movie didn't ripped off one or the other. Avoiding sex or kissing could be another way to see this is how everyone avoided Covid.
One scene has Spartan wanting to go to the bathroom but sees no toilet paper and asked his coworkers about and they said to themselves, "He doesn't know how to use the three seashells!" It showed three seashells sitting on a counter near the toilet. I guess with all the toilet paper shelfs all empty in the stores, they got replaced by seashells. They don't explain how exactly used in the movie. Alot viewers were puzzled about this scene and came up with theories how to use them.
In the movie, everyone has a tracking chip, except for Phoenix since he was frozen long before the chip. During 2021, Alot of anti-maskers and anti-vaccine people has spread conspiracy theories that the vaccines are tracking bugs. So that can be another sign that this could be a post-covid world.
Alot things are banned like alcohol, swearing, chocolate, spicy food, meat. Well it was very hard to find meat in stores at that time. Maybe it was banned early on and that's way the meat shelfs in stores were empty? Or not.
There is alot other stuff that sort of became true. Like Schwarzenegger going into politics or remote cars. VR headsets gotten popular again long after the failure of the Virtual Boy.
Clearly, this future didn't happen but at the time I saw this back when it was the number 1 thing everyone was talking about, I could see this future was a possibility at the time.
