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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.

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.

Well damn. Any chance I can get your autograph?

Notice that it makes you laugh at HER, slapstick-style, for killing the guy. This isn't by accident.

I don't remember any part of the movie having us laugh at her killing the guy. In fact, I remember it being portrayed as quite a poignant moment. But it has been a while since I've seen it and I don't tend to retain details of things I think are crap for very long.

One thing I have noticed in life is that, often, people in a field can sometimes be TOO involved in the details of the field to see the big picture. This movie definitely was made as a farce, but it still was slanted toward a message. A less leftist filmmaker, and certainly a conservative one, would have taken the exact same script and might have ended up without that slant because there would be no unconscious bias to creep in.