Theres been a lot of talk about this film and my own thoughts have been pretty conflicted regarding how to weigh the good and bad aspects of it, and I think this critique does a good job at addressing a lot of the things ive had problems with the film, mainly its underlying liberal rhetoric and the shortcomings of its American-centric narratives. Dont get me wrong I think its a good film and all, but theres some very real limitations to its overall commentary that I think we all need to be thinking about seriously.
very capitalist realism, but i quite liked it within those constraints
like yeah streep being very obviously a trump stand-in was certainly a big weakness as an allegory, maybe it made it more entertaining as a film that gets more people seeing it and thinking about the urgency of the issue, maybe it just lets smug libs off the hook and channels their energy into more useless electoralism, i dunno. if she played an obama figure and hardly anyone except weird leftists watched it, would that be better? i dunno.
but what i did like was how strongly it pushed the "daddy musk is full of shit and will not save you" angle, cos i think deep down everyone knows mainstream lib politicians arent gonna save us, but still hold out desperate hope for some deus ex machina from the tech billionaires. to me this is in many ways a much more important message, and i gotta say the guy nailed the role as well.
maybe im reading too much into it, but i kinda liked the subtle implication that the americans sabotaged the russian/chinese/indian launch as well
and the general charging them for the snacks was a seriously great bit
I think that was the film's strong point, too. Not many :LIB: films dare to take a swing at :melon-musk: for a number of reasons, not least among them because many :LIB: producers, directors, and writers are of the :so-true: bazinga brain persuasion and like to fellate :melon-musk: in their scripts the way Star Trek Discovery, Big Bang Theory, and the Simpsons already have.
was she supposed to be a trump stand in? i thought the movie made a distinction between her and the conservatives. thought she was supposed to be like a typical liberal stand in like Kamala or someone?
she had very trump iconography (the banners and the caps etc), the dont look up rallies and everything were clearly supposed to be trump like, she was wearing red most of the time, her senior advisor was her incompetent son, there was the whole "judge with sex scandals" thing in the background, and she was radiating a trump kinda energy in general. cant remember anything that pointed to her being democrat, might have missed it though. most of the shit ive read about it seemed to have the same takeaway fwiw, so i think if they were trying for a "jabs at both sides" generic non-partisan president character i think they missed the mark
i remember she had a picture of Bill and Hillary on her desk, and i thought the difference was that conservatives were pretending there wasnt even anything to talk about when it went to their news show, vs everyone else and in the administration who did acknowledge its happening, tried to stop it, and then backed out after the capitalists basically said no and then they turned to damage control. i think its somewhat ambiguous on purpose, and shes clearly supposed to sorta be a jab at Clinton and liberals too i feel. i think maybe the film failed in that aspect too of not going after liberals clearly enough