In Interstellar, a blight has wiped out nearly every crop except corn, and the filmmakers prove it by placing only corn-derived foods on the family dinner table: cornbread, corn syrup, corn chowder. That single scene communicates total ecological collapse without a single line of exposition. The best speculative fiction earns its apocalyptic premise by saturating the mundane with specificity.
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