La crítica al presente desde el futuro en The Last of us

Abstract

The Last of Us criticizes our present society from an apocalyptic future that will happen in about thirty years. Unlike videogames such as Detroit Become Human, which criticize our future from a more distant one, or Grand Theft Auto IV, which severely analyzes our present from a fictional one but also being present, Naughty Dog videogames speak of our today from a tomorrow where everything has gone wrong. To do this, Ellie, a girl born after the apocalypse, studies our era through pop culture objects, personal diaries and posters that she finds. He asks Joel about them, who has lived in our time, to draw conclusions. We study how this video game assumes that everything has gone wrong and how it expresses it through its narration.