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.

  • richietozier4 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Lincoln (2012). It jacks off constantly to muh compromise and middle way, and shows Thaddeus Stevens saying he doesn’t believe in racial equality to compromise with racists not as going back on his beliefs, but as a great thing to do and anyone who criticizes him for that (even a black woman) as unreasonable. They even say “a moral compass might lead you into a ditch”

    • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      oh i just realise what libsshit this movie was / the end of the Civil war was ...

      -the "honourable" Capitulation of Lee

      -The "just now getting around to" adressing Slavery in policy making..

      :doomjak: