i might just have shit media literacy but the movie was p liberal tbh, it mainly used revolutionaries as a set dressing for a father/daughter drama, and when it did portray them it portrayed them mostly as a bunch of dorks or it being sexual pathology, only the tendency-free sanctuary city operation and bringing your iphone to a protest were really portrayed positively
which is to say even that is better than 99% of hollywood revolutionary portrayal, a very low bar but still
Yeah my takeaway was it’s a great action flick, that happens to use some leftist framing but it’s not really a movie critiquing anything about society just sorta showing an interesting POV.
What it does do well, is that there’s no argument being made that the revolutionaries portrayed are gray morally or anything like that. The revolutionaries are the good guys and the US military are bad in this film, but it doesn’t waste a bunch of time trying to justify that, it’s just played as matter of fact. Which I think is neat
“It’s kind of shocking to see these kind of accolades for — I’m sorry, it’s a not-very-good movie — because of it’s political ideology,” Ellis said. “And it’s so obvious that is what they’re responding to, why it’s considered a masterpiece, the greatest film of the decade, the greatest film ever made. Because it really aligns with this kind of leftist sensibility.”
Is Ellis a chud?
In other news - I know it’s pointless to mention but it really irks me how republicans use “leftist” as a catchall to mean “something to the left of me I hate”. Of course their bugbear could be anything or anybody from Nancy Pelosi to Bernie to us.
Is Ellis a chud?
He’s conflating “liberal” and “leftist”. I think it’s a safe bet.
Per this interview https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/02/06/bret_easton_ellis_gen_x_is_the_most_conservative_of_the_generations_because_we_had_the_most_freedom.html
Bret: I’m nothing. I’m not a conservative or a liberal. At least in the US, I can’t agree with either of them. I think they’re both completely bonkers. I don’t watch the news anymore. We have the Food Network on all of our TV screens, or video games. I’m done. It’s very hard to follow it when it all seems like a simulacrum, a preordained narrative that is being fed to you. The mainstream press in the United States right now just seems so f*cking fake.
Rich fuck that recognises they’re both shit but he’s too fucking rich to care about finding alternatives so he just gets to check out
Yeah, that’s why I like Gary Indiana. He’s just the better, lefter version of Bret Easton Ellis that still writes these perfect novels that capture the ridiculous depravity at the heart of USAmerican living.
I’m nothing. I’m not a conservative or a liberal.
I hope to find out when i watch the movie
Every time Bret Easton Ellis is mentioned now, I can only think of Norm Macdonald roasting him over and over for calling Alice Munro overrated.
The same Alice Munro who chose to stay with the her husband while knowing he sexually abused her daughter? Bret Easton Ellis stays winning
I didn’t know that, though neither did Ellis or Macdonald, obviously.
Yeah it didn’t come out until after her death, pretty horrific tbh https://www.npr.org/2024/07/08/nx-s1-5032827/alice-munro-daughter-abuse-stepfather
