Y2K Trailer Takes Us From Partying Like It’s 1999 to Global Technological Despair
Individuals who had reached double digits in age by the year 1999 likely recall the widespread anxiety of Y2K. The concern was that the world would experience an unprecedented technological collapse due to computers failing to recognize the “00” at the end of 2000. As I turned thirteen during that year, my mother prepared us by keeping us all in the living room with emergency supplies like flashlights, just in case disaster struck. Fortunately, it did not come to pass… However, I often ponder what might have transpired had Y2K unfolded as predicted. A24 offers a comical yet unsettling response to this question in the trailer for Y2K, a film that takes us from celebrating the end of the millennium to chaos and destruction.