While it’s easy to call certain older works of literature and film that were set in the future and seemed to predict what is happening now, prescient, it’s more likely that either their creatures made a luck guess, or that history is more cyclical than we realize. We keep making the same mistakes, but perhaps more importantly, we keep ignoring those voices that can see what the future might hold. Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden’s punk vision of a future New York, where women and other marginalized people began to fight back against their oppression in increasingly violent ways, is a work of art that seems prescient, and yet it’s a film that is both of tis time and, in that great-for-art-but-bad-for-society way, timeless. It’s…
