The Pursuit of Happyness is really bad. Will Smith's inspirational moment is going to the New York Stock Exchange and seeing all the happy rich guys in suits walking around, and wanting to be like them. Having to do stuff like brown-nose executives, sleep in train station bathrooms and pull his son out of daycare due to lack of money are presented not as flaws of the system but evidence of Smith's smart bootstraps-oriented thinking. This movie is the Mein Kampf of liberalism.

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]M
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    2 years ago

    From last time (two years ago)

    The Green Mile (1999): Takes the “magic negro” trope to what may very well be the record height (dude literally uses telepathy and healing miracles to solve white people’s problems), and encourages the audience to feel bad for a death row corrections officer named Paul as he spends three hours of screen time standing by and doing nothing to halt the execution of an innocent black man. This experience ultimately troubles Paul enough for him to resign from death row and take up a new, noble career in juvenile corrections.