The World in 2025
My Prompt:
Say I'm working on a series of ten lectures on "The World in 2025" focusing on emergent global trends in politics, culture, economics, etc (2020-2025) but exploring these primarily through ten films from the 1990s or 2000s. Each lecture should focus on a single trend/feature and film.
Film selection criteria: Official release date between 1 Jan 1990 and 31 Dec 2009. Global box office <$100 million. Should not have won an Academy Award in any of the major categories (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor/Actress, etc).
Provide: Lecture titles + short lecture descriptions + companion films + short justifications for film selections.
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Responses: GPT-5 Thinking, Kimi K2, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro