This Futuristic Film Quietly Dropped on Max, and It Deserves More Recognition

Asif Kapadia’s dual genre “sci-fi documentary” film 2073 is a frightening vision of the future
that’s all too real, blending footage with a dystopian narrative to tell a harrowing tale. It was
released late 2024, yet received little attention. What makes this film so captivating is the
portrayal of environmental cataclysms and authoritarian regimes was actual footage blended in
with the film itself, and there was a total lack of green screen usage.

The film’s protagonist, a woman known only as Ghost, uses the film as a warning by narrating
the catastrophic events. She lives in the tunnels underneath an abandoned shopping mall in
San Francisco, California, in the year of 2073, over three decades after a string of natural and
man-made horrifying events occurred. The result leads to a dystopian-type view of what the
future could potentially look like one day, between flooded ruins full of toxins, starving people,
drones and brutal military police roaming the cities, and rich people being treated with luxury.

This underrated film is an eye-opener that needs more attention, and with the historical footage
used within it, the movie brings a haunting aesthetic that gives a hint at what could happen in
the future.