Posted on 05/13/2024 12:36:12 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
Absurdity can be a literary vehicle itself. A person from California may say “People in Texas can learn a lot from us due to our intellectual superiority” so they don’t see it as absurd.
By former I meant Chaplin and by latter I meant Temple.
Too many ideas in the one sentence
In the opening scenes, where that white president lies about qhat is happening while police attack protestors, that president reminds me of the Biden lawfare against Trump and the January 6 protestors.
I do not think the film is progressive or conservative. I think it looks at the sort of future America possibly faces if intolerant polarisation continues to grow.
I agree that Abbott’s Texas and Newsome’s California are not on the same side now.
But I think the plot device of making California and Texas the two states in the movie’s Western Forces is what makes it hard to definitively equate either the Trump or Biden side of politics now with the movie’s authoritarian federal government.
You say it’s a road trip movie not a war movie.
What I saw was a road trip into the heart of a war.
If that’s true then they can kiss my @ss, I’ll never see it.
They are always so busy.
The movie was ok. Would have liked to have seen more of the war, but the focus was on the reporters road trip to Washington.
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