American Psycho is excellent though, if someone walks out of that film thinking Bateman is a cool guy then there’s probably not much hope for them
I’m in the bottom half of the meme, except I don’t feel like a :gigachad:, I’m miserable because I come to the internet and clearly see all these people going “he like me fr fr”. :doomjak:
Looking at the back and forth on this has me 100% convinced that it is not on the author to get across that it is satire at all because you can put fucking spotlights and sparklers on it and the director can freeze-frame it to explain exactly what is happening and that it is satirical and some people will still not fucking get it.
Case in point: contemporary reviews of Starship Troopers written by professional film critics
some people will still not fucking get it
At some level, its entirely deliberate. The “not getting it” folks fixate on the fantastic element of the film and deliberately neglect or ignore the consequences of indulgence in fantasy.
This isn’t an accident, its a conscious decision to propagandize certain angles of the film.
And it isn’t as though movies don’t exist that are even more explicit and bald faced and nakedly critical. But you’re not going to see a bunch of dude-bros :soypoint-1: over Revolutionary Road or Marriage Story.
Again, anything that doesn’t endorse their narrative is either derided or excluded in the conversation.
joker is based though :joker-troll:
I’d also argue that Heath Ledger’s Joker was supposed to be at least somewhat of a leftist but filtered through the lense of Nolan’s deranged conservative worldview
Think about it, the only reason Bane was the villain of the 3rd movie was because Ledger died and had he not then the Joker would have been the one having capitalists dragged from their luxury apartments into the streets and having Wall Street scumbags tried for their crimes against the people
Even in the Dark Knight the case could be made that what the Joker meant when he vaguely said that no one cares about people dying so long as it’s “part of the plan” was meant both as a criticism of how many people die of poverty within :amerikkka: as well as this country’s genocidal foreign policy
Of course that didn’t stop moron incels from thinking it was just cool to shoot up movie theaters
