There are lots of reasons to praise Dune 2. The cinematography is superb (see it in an IMAX if you can). The music is mesmerizing. Austin Butler’s performance as a psychopath is spine-chilling. But there’s another reason that is too little commented on: Dune has something to tell us about the direction that history is heading in.

This might sound both pretentious and absurd. The film involves a ridiculous mishmash of the hyper-modern and the medieval — of sword fights and nuclear arsenals, long treks on foot and hyper-sonic voyages. Yet that is exactly the point: The Dune franchise grasps that the world is becoming a mash-up of supposed incompatibles. Rather than “the end of history,” we are witnessing the confusion of history.

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Dune 2 Predicts the Future Better than Fukuyama

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06.04.2024

There are lots of reasons to praise Dune 2. The cinematography is superb (see it in an IMAX if you can). The music is mesmerizing. Austin Butler’s performance as a psychopath is........

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