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What are some extremely liberal movies? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) has to be up there. Literally glorifies the stock market and presents a finance bro job as the key to happiness. There's a scene near the start where Will Smith is outside the NYSE looking at all the suits going in and out and narrating how he was inspired by how happy everyone was, and how this inspired him to bootlick his way into some internship, the pursuit of which literally requires him to alienate his friends and family and sleep in subway bathrooms with his five-year-old son. Everyone in the movie is a lazy, unscrupulous asshole, except for the rich people, of course, who are portrayed as generous and open-minded for allowing Will Smith in the door after he kisses their asses the whole movie. All of his struggle with homelessness and poverty etc. is portrayed not as injustice but as the ideal scenario, rewarding the hardest, most dedicated worker with a job. It is literally r/upliftingnews: the movie.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Idiocracy. The poor are subhumans unlike the rich, but unfortunately the rich are too meek to assert their superiority over the serfs and dies out, leaving the former to destroy civilization with thier inferiority.

It's a literal fascist propaganda and the fact that libs really love that moves tells you a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I dunno. I bought into that joke that president commacho is a better president than anyone we have. When he finds a super genius thst can solve their probelms he just puts him in charge. Which by any measure would make him the best president in US history.

There is some shit there to unpack and it gets lost in rasism shit of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I never know if that was meant to be intentional or not. Like the whole movie is basically saying "haha these people are all idiots", but in the end they're more equitable and kind than anything you'd see in a liberal reality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The whole explanation it had was unmaterialist and eugenicist, etc.

But the way it depicted the particularities of late capitalist vicissitudes was weirdly spot on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Thats really the thing about fascists, theyve always been able to spot the problems and frame them in reactionary terms, whereas Liberals really cant do either and parade around a lot of cultural bullshit.