Falling down and the great American lie.

[MusicForTheDeaf]

The social and economic issues/political messaging highlighted in this 1993 film, today, have grown and metastasized into their most extreme and grotesque versions possible. The last few minutes of this film review really drives it home and describes the CAVERNOUS wealth divide, and just how dystopian present-day America is becoming!

Just like the narrator says, "this film is more poignant than it ever was!"

 

[Wilson23]

It's quite a compelling presentation of the American Zeitgeist in the 1990s, just after the Cold War ended.

What is truly astonishing is how LITTLE has changed since then. I mean, this isn't like a movie made in the 1960s, where the characters might as well have come from another planet for all they resemble Americans now. These characters are like US.

Still.

Is American culture stagnating?
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/is-american-culture-stagnating.1646595/

 

[Wilson23]

On the subject of socially relevant old fims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live

In 1956 the evil aliens are on the outside trying to get in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers

But in 1988, they have successfully taken over -- what else could account for things? To a lot of Americans then, yuppies did seem like something from another planet.

 

[MusicForTheDeaf]

On the subject of socially relevant old fims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live

In 1956 the evil aliens are on the outside trying to get in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers

But in 1988, they have successfully taken over -- what else could account for things? To a lot of Americans then, yuppies did seem like something from another planet.

The film was a brutally scathing critique about the lies and absurdities of modern American hypercapitalism.

It was released in 1993, and the political messaging of the film is more poignant now than ever before.

 

[Wilson23]

The film was a brutally scathing critique about the lies and absurdities of modern American hypercapitalism.

It was released in 1993, and the political messaging of the film is more poignant now than ever before.

There were factions who decried "It's a Wonderful Life" because the villain, Mr. Potter, is a banker -- too anti-capitalist a message.

Of course, George Bailey is also a banker.

 

[Wilson23]

Interestingly, "Red Dawn" conveyed no political message that would not have been exactly the same if the invaders were the Tsar's troops rather than Communists.

 

[latecomer91364]

Fucking Pussy OP - posting a video clip with no commentary of his own.

Weasel move at best.

 

[Wilson23]

'Course there have been a LOT of movies about about the lies and absurdities of modern American hypercapitalism -- "Wall Street," the business subplot of "Pretty Woman," etc.

 

[Wilson23]

Fucking Pussy OP - posting a video clip with no commentary of his own.

Weasel move at best.

Clear enough from context and content. The Great American Lie is capitalism.

 

[YDB95]

There were factions who decried "It's a Wonderful Life" because the villain, Mr. Potter, is a banker -- too anti-capitalist a message.

Of course, George Bailey is also a banker.

Did they really condemn Potter just for being a banker? Or was it because he was greedy and unscrupulous?

 

[DraggonStone]

Catch 22

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

The film was a brutally scathing critique about the lies and absurdities of modern American hypercapitalism.

It was released in 1993, and the political messaging of the film is more poignant now than ever before.

I thought Falling Down was a movie about white male grievance.