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Been awhile since we've done this thread, and it's always fun. Here are some of my picks:

  • The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) is really bad. Will Smith's inspirational moment is going to the New York Stock Exchange and seeing all the happy rich guys in suits walking around, and wanting to be like them. Having to do stuff like brown-nose executives, sleep in train station bathrooms and pull his son out of daycare due to lack of money are presented not as flaws of the system but evidence of Smith's smart bootstraps-oriented thinking. This movie is the Mein Kampf of liberalism.

  • Air (2023) is really bad too. Literally a feature-length Nike commercial coupled with a fuckton of Michael Jordan worship, the message being that a bunch of rich guys deserved to get even richer because they signed a sneaker deal. The closing 5 minutes of the movie are a "where are they now" montage showing how much money all the Nike executives made, yay!

  • Anastasia (1997), which portrays the Russian Revolution as the result of a wizard's curse and communism as bad because it got in the way of the Romanovs living in big palaces and wearing fancy dresses.

  • The Post (2017), about a wealthy, heroic girlboss newspaper executive who makes the heroic decision to...uhh...not block the publication of a story that would expose the lies of a corrupt president threatening our democracy (take THAT drumpf)

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Sorry to Bother You (2018).

I know people want a good radical comedy, but that's not it. It's been a while so I can't remember everything about the film but there are some major points.

The protagonist gets wealthy by selling arms, then moves to an apartment in the sky where he essentially looks down on the people. At the end, he leaves it all behind because he realizes the fucked up nature of that life and moves back to his uncle's garage, but he kept some of furniture of the apartment and said something to the effect of like 'We're back to where we started but there's no reason we can't have some nice things.' These pieces testify as corpses of his class betrayal. He is, on the exterior, the garage which symbolizes working class politics and struggle, but within his garage, he has the desires and furnishings of one of the worst aspects of capitalism as his interiority awaiting a repetition. He never fully let go of, or totally rejected, the desired niceties—literal furnishings—of that lifestyle. The ideology lives on within him.

And the moment of Revolution, which brings the hope of the new world, is carried through by Capitalism's own dark creation. I think Riley wanted to show this classic idea, since Marx, that Capitalism has sown the seed of its own destruction. But this is not a protletarian revolution. It is a 'Equisapien' revolution. I think this shows Riley's pessimism that revolution is impossible. Humans are ready to betray their class and humanity as a whole for luxury and will never be the same, even if they have a moment of rectification, they will always remain stained and corrupted—the protagonist and the new garage. But these mutant, super-humans have the capacity because—I'm not entirely sure why anymore. The point being, humans are the ones who need to carry through an anti-capitalist Revoltion in real life and we need to do it by organizing with other fellow humans who have the revolutionary potential to see it through. We cannot wait for a literal new species/race to come into existence to save us from capitalism as a deus ex machina. This is almost a Communist's pseudo-superhero movie, with the super/antihero coming in when everything seems lost and saving the day. Just because it is some unattractive, monsterous creation of capitalism doesn't mean it necessarily has a different meaning from a typical superhero movie—don't worry, someone will come save you from yourself because you simply cannot do it yourself. Total lib fantasy where you still get to keep your ill-gotten treats.

I'll also mention this is totally on-brand for Boots Riley, the middle-class son of an attorney who wants to play at revolutionary but still keep his nice things that he's accustomed to having.

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[–] StalinForTime@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Birth of a Nation.

The Patriot.

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man The Patriot pisses me off. I'm not out here to defend the British but the way they movie inverts the historical reality of which side was better for slaves is truly demonic.

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[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every single Evangelion Rebuild movie is liberal soylent. Completely fucked the original meaning of EoE and replaced it with "MUH GRINDSET, EXISTENTIALISM AND NUCLEAR FAMILY GOOD!!"

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Any of the Buddies movies from Disney. Just trust me on this.

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It'd be easier to list which movies AREN'T pure liberalism.

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

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[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Killer Clowns from Outer Space

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[–] Zodiark@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the non pejorative descriptor and variation of liberalism, I'd say Juarez, 1939 was a good movie depicting liberalism and its justified resistance against Habsburg rule of Mexico by Louis Napoleon III and resistance against the French.

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