My coworker was telling me how well Jerry Maguire stands up today and I forced myself to remember the major beats of that piece of shit:
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Big company bad and evil; small start up good and pure.
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Being principled always pays off in the end.
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Everyone can make it if they try hard, believe in themselves, and believe in each other.
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We can have perfect interpersonal relations if we just learn to balance work and life appropriately, and it's up to us to accept that challenge.
Fuck this movie. More importantly fuck people who like this movie. Jerry would have turned out just like his old firm buddies (even if the major plot points largely stay the same). Everyone in this movie is actively trying to exploit each other in the beginning. And even though it's totally inconsequential to how bad these people are in their shitty lives, if you ask me the most unbelievable part is when Jerry and Bridget Jones get back together at the end.
Not buying it.
Tell me about the shitty liberal movies that are renting space in your head.
Except it's the other way around? The director intentionally did shots framing the main character in a a sympathetic manner. If anyone is media illiterate, and it was unintentional, it would be the writer/director. Look at those comments again, check other reviews; They didn't feel sympathy for the character, they felt they were being told to feel sympathy for the character because that's how the movie is repeatedly framed. But for many it didn't work because the character was so abhorent.
Edit: even the movie summary is kinda ambiguous about morally judging Marla.