Oblivion

Oblivion is a postcyberpunk-like post-apocalyptic science-fiction film, set on a future Earth and starring Tom Cruise

Plot

In 2077, sixty years after a war with extraterrestrials that devastated Earth in 2017, humanity has relocated to Saturn's moon Titan via a giant space station called the Tet. Gigantic offshore fusion energy generators drain Earth's oceans to power the colonies on Titan.

Futurist ideas

As such there are many popular sci-fi tropes and cliches such as:

• Alien invasion, by AI-based aliens for a change
• Post-apocalyptic earth with requisite plucky rebels
• Posthuman astronauts
• Mind wiping
• Human cloning, including obligatory clone vs clone fight to the death
• Suspended animation

The main innovation to the genre is the heavy use of automation:

• Massive giga factories are refining the earth's seas into deuterium fuel
• Relatively smart flying armed drones assess and wipe out threats to the operation
• The drone maintenance man is automated via cloning and brain washing
• The drone maintenance man's wife is automated via brain washing and central orders from the AI

External links

• Oblivion (2013 film) on Wikipedia
• Oblivion on IMDB