The Pursuit of Happyness is really bad. Will Smith’s inspirational moment is going to the New York Stock Exchange and seeing all the happy rich guys in suits walking around, and wanting to be like them. Having to do stuff like brown-nose executives, sleep in train station bathrooms and pull his son out of daycare due to lack of money are presented not as flaws of the system but evidence of Smith’s smart bootstraps-oriented thinking. This movie is the Mein Kampf of liberalism.
Idiocracy – the whole thing is a eugenics take on poor people are genetically stupid people and vice versa, and their “out of control” breeding vs the smart, civil minded rich people creates a world that’s run by the genetically poor stupid people
And then there’s Anastasia (1997), where the message is literally “communism is bad because it got in the way of the Romanovs having fancy parties and wearing expensive clothes”. The Bolsheviks literally enter the Winter Palace through a magic portal created by Rasputin.
No they’re not named. But what it does explicitly state is that the discontent against the noble Romanovs was literally fermented by demons, and the male lead in one of the palace servants and helps her and her mother escape. Then in the next scene the opening musical number is the people of St Petersburg Petrograd Leningrad singing and dancing in the streets at the rumor that a Romanov princess survived, and they quickly shut up when a commissar (hammer and sickle on his cap) looks at them angrily.
I also have to say, it’s a really strange choice that the two leads (and members of the royal family) are the only characters designed to look like real uncanny people, and everyone else looks like a caricature.
it’s a really strange choice that the two leads (and members of the royal family) are the only characters designed to look like real uncanny people, and everyone else looks like a caricature.
White (coded) people are the main characters of human history. Only white people can be good and free and intelligent and adventurous.
Oh super lib, but it’s Bluth Company and it has this banger COME MY MINIONS
Also, the film is 100x less Lib/reactionary than the musical, which makes the anti-communism that’s kind of dream-like in the film pretty much explicit through some KGB agent as the bad guy instead of undead Rasputin.
I saw the musical in London which just added to the liberalism :chefs-kiss:
I clapped when the romanovs died
Black Panther, for all the self evident reasons and the advocating for the CIA illegally overthrowing third world governments
From last time (two years ago)
The Green Mile (1999): Takes the “magic negro” trope to what may very well be the record height (dude literally uses telepathy and healing miracles to solve white people’s problems), and encourages the audience to feel bad for a death row corrections officer named Paul as he spends three hours of screen time standing by and doing nothing to halt the execution of an innocent black man. This experience ultimately troubles Paul enough for him to resign from death row and take up a new, noble career in juvenile corrections.
Religulous is just Bill Maher acting like the smug scum sucking piece of shit he is while he pretends he’s smarter than everyone else in the room for 75 minutes.
The scene where he condescends to the truckers for believing in a magic man in the sky. Like they’re on the road huddled into this truck stop chapel and he comes in a full suit like, “don’t you think this is silly?” and everyone’s still really nice and patient with him like they’re handling a child.
Out of all the ways he could have Spoken Truth To Power with religion in the US, are these really the people we give a shit about?
Out of all the ways he could have Spoken Truth To Power with religion in the US, are these really the people we give a shit about?
That’s exactly it, it was never about speaking truth to power nearly as much as sneering at “yokels”. There is another scene that I think is from that movie where he’s in just the tiniest, shittiest church I’ve seen in my entire life just harassing the handful of people who are there for believing in God, and I think that planted the seed for my outgrowing New Atheism far before I could ever articulate it. His behavior is just so revolting and hateful there.
