They were a reminder that on this Election Day and night, and more generally, one group’s dystopia is another group’s utopia.

By the time I started working as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times three decades ago, the California dystopia genre was already well established.

But in our current glut of movie dystopias, we’ve gotten away from that kind of immersive showmanship.

The “better future” we are being sold by OpenAI and others is, in fact, a dystopia.

The more you think about it, the more Miller’s desert dystopia begins looking like a fantastical ER.