The original Disco Elysium wasn’t THAT radical at all
DE is subtle enough for me to have seen dozens of chuds who were 100% sure the game is a critique of communism or that its message is "politics are stupid and you should not take sides"
Which is why I think this kind of subversive media should be way more on the nose these days, otherwise a good chunk of libs and chuds alike will invent their own interpretation so they don't actually have to do any introspection.
If shit like "Don't Look Up" completely flies over people's heads you really don't have a choice but to hammer the point in very very explicitly. Currently nobody is doing this.
The most infuriating example to me is the brazilian movie Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad). If you haven't watched it, do so, it's a great movie.
Its critique of the war on drugs is about as obvious as you can get without spelling out "war on drugs = bad".
The main character is a high-ranking policeman who cannot have a regular human interaction, he's so deep into the "war" mentality that he can't see any person he interacts with as a human being... yet brazilians consider him a hero. When he's foaming at the mouth torturing a drug addict, they applaud. When he barely holds himself back from slapping his wife, they yell "yeah! that bitch!"
I've seen people saying the director didn't understand the movie when he came out and complained about people misinterpreting the message
DE is subtle enough for me to have seen dozens of chuds who were 100% sure the game is a critique of communism or that its message is "politics are stupid and you should not take sides"
chuds could read the communist manifesto and think it was a critique of communism, they don't do rational political thought
Which is why I think this kind of subversive media should be way more on the nose these days, otherwise a good chunk of libs and chuds alike will invent their own interpretation so they don't actually have to do any introspection.
If shit like "Don't Look Up" completely flies over people's heads you really don't have a choice but to hammer the point in very very explicitly. Currently nobody is doing this.
The most infuriating example to me is the brazilian movie Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad). If you haven't watched it, do so, it's a great movie.
Its critique of the war on drugs is about as obvious as you can get without spelling out "war on drugs = bad".
The main character is a high-ranking policeman who cannot have a regular human interaction, he's so deep into the "war" mentality that he can't see any person he interacts with as a human being... yet brazilians consider him a hero. When he's foaming at the mouth torturing a drug addict, they applaud. When he barely holds himself back from slapping his wife, they yell "yeah! that bitch!"
I've seen people saying the director didn't understand the movie when he came out and complained about people misinterpreting the message
Good point