From The Future With Love
2013 · 12m · Estados Unidos
Directed by K. Michel Parandi
Genres: satire, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: dark, darkly comic, provocative
In a familiar near future, squads of private corporate police patrol the streets of New York and sell protection plans to citizens.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally, a film that takes the private security state seriously as absurdist horror rather than retreating into polite dystopia—Parandi commits to the obscene logic (sell *protection* from yourself?) and doesn't blink, which is exactly the move everyone else was too scared to make.
A sharp inversion of the cyberpunk procedural that shows formal discipline in its restraint, refusing both the bloat of prestige sci-fi and the gimmickry of hot-take satire; the tonal control between thriller and dark comedy sits in a lineage of Paul Verhoeven's provocation-through-craft.
The film's real sting comes from treating corporate double-speak as genuine policy rather than villain monologue—there's a decision to play every sales pitch straight, no winking, which transforms what could've been obvious satire into something that actually lands.