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Movie of the Week

Four Movies for Four Scenarios

July 4, 2026

“Filmmakers are very good at showing us the near future in a cinematic way. ”

~ Nina Heyn

Movie of the Week

Four Movies for Four Scenarios

Long-time Solari Report subscribers know that we are fans of scenario planning as a risk navigation tool. In addition to the scenarios for 2026 included in our 2025 Annual Wrap Up, we have just published four possible scenarios that attempt to frame the intent of the people and institutions implementing programmable money and related systems. The scenarios arise from the intersection of two variables: Financial Transactions (Financial Transaction Freedom vs. Financial Transaction Control) and Level of Centralization (Decentralized vs. Centralized).

Officialdom tends to dismiss the concept of movie-led “predictive programming” as a “conspiracy theory,” but sometimes there is nothing like a movie for providing insights on elite agendas and tactics. For each of the four programmable money scenarios, therefore, we have selected a movie that does a good job of conveying the essence of that scenario.

  1. Scenario #1: The Republic – It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  2. Scenario #2: The Invisible Fence – The Circle (2017)
  3. Scenario #3: The Permitted Life – The Lives of Others (2006)
  4. Scenario #4: High-Tech Feudalism – Elysium (2013)

We invite you to read the description of the four scenarios and then add the four movies (see links below) to your watch/rewatch list.

Related at Solari

Programmable Money: Four Scenarios

Let’s Go to the Movies: Week of Dec. 13, 2021: It’s a Wonderful Life

Let’s Go to the Movies: Week of January 18, 2021: The Lives of Others

Food for the Soul: “The Circle”

Food for the Soul: The Inventor [discusses Elysium]


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