I genuinely had no idea it was supposed to take place in 2002 until after I watched it and read the Wikipedia article. The only real hint is that the kids all had candy bar and flip phones rather than smart phones, and that the main character had a Tamagotchi, but both of those things are still sold in exactly the same form as in the movie, and the idea of a bunch of 13 year olds not being given expensive smartphones was just taken for granted by me.
They didn't actually reference anything that happened in the early 2000s. The only way you'd ever know is if you paid really close attention and connected all the vague one-shot references together.
Canadian kids most certainly were not running around with flip phones in the early 2000s like scandavian kids with their cheap Nokias in the 90s, because cell phone service was fucking EXHORBITANT at the time, and if they did have one, it'd be a pay-as-you-go. Canada was WAY behind the rest of the world in making cell phone service reasonably affordable, and I'm quite sure that was well after 2002.
And yeah, 9/11 WAS important for Canadians and their kids, it was all over the news here, too, and for sure they talked about it in schools as endlessly as everywhere else. Not to mention the fact that people from everfuckingwhere worked in those buildings.
And this is why totalitarianism is coming to the West, btw. The younger generations have never been NOT under constant surveillance. Thanks, cell phones.
I genuinely had no idea it was supposed to take place in 2002 until after I watched it and read the Wikipedia article. The only real hint is that the kids all had candy bar and flip phones rather than smart phones, and that the main character had a Tamagotchi, but both of those things are still sold in exactly the same form as in the movie, and the idea of a bunch of 13 year olds not being given expensive smartphones was just taken for granted by me.
They didn't actually reference anything that happened in the early 2000s. The only way you'd ever know is if you paid really close attention and connected all the vague one-shot references together.
Canadian kids most certainly were not running around with flip phones in the early 2000s like scandavian kids with their cheap Nokias in the 90s, because cell phone service was fucking EXHORBITANT at the time, and if they did have one, it'd be a pay-as-you-go. Canada was WAY behind the rest of the world in making cell phone service reasonably affordable, and I'm quite sure that was well after 2002.
And yeah, 9/11 WAS important for Canadians and their kids, it was all over the news here, too, and for sure they talked about it in schools as endlessly as everywhere else. Not to mention the fact that people from everfuckingwhere worked in those buildings.
And this is why totalitarianism is coming to the West, btw. The younger generations have never been NOT under constant surveillance. Thanks, cell phones.
Still is...
Compared to other countries? It probably is. But it's still way fucking better than it was before.
For such a sprawling country, our travel and communications options suck dead paki balls.