The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) has to be up there. The inciting incident is Will Smith going to Wall Street and seeing all the happy, smiling rich people walking out of the New York Stock Exchange, and deciding he wants to be like them. There is no irony in this or in any other scene; pursuing a finance-bro internship at all costs is portrayed literally and uncritically as the "happyness" in the title. The entire rest of the movie is a masturbatory hustle-culture fantasy in which Will Smith having to do things like being homeless, sleeping in subway bathrooms, kissing the asses of as many banking executives as possible, and foregoing feeding or clothe his kindergarten-age son are portrayed not as indictments of the system but as evidence of Smith's smart, bootstraps-oriented thinking. The rich people throughout the movie are jovial and well-adjusted, always willing to give a smart guy like Smith a shot (but only when they see his plucky bootstrappiness firsthand, which they only do once he insistently fellates them first); meanwhile, all poor people are miserable, underhanded slimeballs who are nothing but trouble for Smith. This movie is the Mein Kampf of liberalism.

What else?

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I remember being the first one to say Forest Gump on that thread lol, seems to be the popular answer in this one.

        I think "Falling Down", as a movie, is pretty much the embodiment of scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, so that will be my answer for this thread.

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          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            He is also extremely racist to the Korean shopkeepers if I remember correctly. The movie was even cancelled in South Korea.

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              • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                Releasing a movie the year after the LA riots, and two years after the gulf war, where a disgruntled defence contractor in LA goes full on racist and smashes the store owned by a Korean shopkeeper is definitely something