One
of the key components in speculative fiction is imagining various potential
futures based on the current state of the world. In her new film,
Yesterday Never Ends, Spanish writer-director Isabel Coixet’s
(Map of the Sounds of Tokyo) takes the current economic
crisis in her native country and extends it by a decade, out into the year
2017. In this iteration, the crisis worsens, taking the entire country down
with it. Unemployment is at seven million, civil unrest runs rampant in the
streets, fiscal cut backs hamstring every social service, and the government is
powerless to do a damn thing about any of it.
