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To: SamuraiScot
Part of that is that he's making sport of the "perfect illegal alien" trope our culture is plagued with.

I think you're giving these people far too much credit.
34 posted on 01/02/2022 9:24:10 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak
I think you're giving these people far too much credit.

Listen. I'm a writer. Done a lot of acting, free and for money, and I've seen and read a lot of plays and movies before and after. My family was in show business and movies--some still are. Plots have conventions, and a certain type of show has a plot that makes fun of conventions. It's a thing.

Every plot element in this movie is set up to be blown up. Notice that it makes you laugh at HER, slapstick-style, for killing the guy. This isn't by accident. Think about it. This could never happen in a PC play or movie--where Lefty heroes are noble and magical, and never clueless. This guy arranges his characters like balloons on a dart board. It's very dark, and it sure doesn't "show us all a way forward. . ."

No, I don't know what portion of the audience gets all this. But it's a total send-up of our culture. It's a format that goes all the way back to the Greeks. Like the current "Brandon" presidency, it's a farce.

35 posted on 01/02/2022 2:42:21 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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