The "Depressed" Science Fiction of American Cinema

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Science fiction is a particularly porous genre to the anxieties and conflicts of an era, digesting certain social facts, even in a minimal or unconscious way. As such, the American SF cinema of the 2010s unfolds a particularly dark imagination. The depressed mood of American science fiction films of the 2010s is illustrated by an apathetic rhythm, brutalistic settings, dull colors and, more generally, a sense of evanescent floating. In the psych…