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  Why 1999 Was the Year of Dystopian Office Movies: What The Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space & Being John Malkovich Shared in Common

  

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  On August 11, 1992, the writer Douglas Coupland made an appearance at the grand opening of Minneapolis' Mall of America, the largest shopping mall on Earth. Against his interviewer's expectations, Coupland delivered a paean to the ostensibly hyperconsumeristic scene around him, claiming that "future generations are going to look at images of today here in […]

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