I submit The Post (2017), which is all about a fabulously wealthy, heroic girlboss newspaper executive taking on a crooked president threatening our democracy (take THAT drumpf)
I submit The Post (2017), which is all about a fabulously wealthy, heroic girlboss newspaper executive taking on a crooked president threatening our democracy (take THAT drumpf)
It did give that impression sometimes, but it also had a character sum up his key argument by saying, "I think the institutions of our democracy are wonderful things that right now are populated by some terrible people." This undercuts any message that American institutions themselves are oppressive and instead suggests that simply putting good people in charge would be enough to stop institutional abuses. It's a fundamentally reformist thesis that belies not only the film's radical veneer, but the actual politics of the real-life radicals into whose mouths Sorkin is putting his own lib-ass words.