The timing of the release is interesting, but the book that the movie is based off of was published in 1985. It's a very interesting nuanced novel--full of gallows humor, purposeful subterfuge, satire-- but I haven't seen the film. I don't even know how it could be translated into a visual medium effectively, plus I disregard everything released nowadays as not-even-subtle propaganda and shitty bastardizations or semi-retarded reinterpretations and rehashes of things that worked previously but just weren't "edgy" or inverted enough... I like your suggestion that it's predictive programming. Hard to know for sure, but there is definitely a ton of stuff that seems eerie/uncanny in this way.
Until someone comes out and says what they're doing, I'll just keep expressing that I do not and will not consent. Not willingly.
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