Man on the Edge
Mar. 3rd, 2012 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnI accidentally found a trailer on Youtube for an upcoming film that seems to be something of a reworking of Falling Down - this is quite a unique case where I'm not sure if I find something funny or really disturbing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4CZrnEFxU
When I first saw this I was really unsure about it, as some recent conversations had made me worried that some people may view it as a sort of worst-case documentary on the future of my life. Though - as it seems to cover the vast majority of what I've written about over the last five years and a couple of the things that Charlie Brooker has also made us aware of - it's something of a comfort that America is at least aware that some aspects of its culture can be somewhat vexing. (The film appears to stay apolitical - which is just as well, because once you get into that sphere, things become sort of pitiable instead.)
Of course, it wouldn't be right not to acknowledge the irony that this imagined solution to the problem is also quite so distinctly American.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4CZrnEFxU
When I first saw this I was really unsure about it, as some recent conversations had made me worried that some people may view it as a sort of worst-case documentary on the future of my life. Though - as it seems to cover the vast majority of what I've written about over the last five years and a couple of the things that Charlie Brooker has also made us aware of - it's something of a comfort that America is at least aware that some aspects of its culture can be somewhat vexing. (The film appears to stay apolitical - which is just as well, because once you get into that sphere, things become sort of pitiable instead.)
Of course, it wouldn't be right not to acknowledge the irony that this imagined solution to the problem is also quite so distinctly American.
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Date: 2012-03-03 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-04 07:33 pm (UTC)However, my issue with the film, is actually that they go after airhead Hollywood figures; while the heroes, themselves, are perpetrators of Hollywood motifs: they all have clean skin; their hair is shiny, and well-groomed; their nails are all cut evenly. . . So to me, this film feels like it is example of the pot calling the kettle black! And while the heroes may have the perfect thing to say in every line, the characters they're fighting against are real world people who don't always have a script when they're being recorded by camera. So it's like the pot is all shiny and new, while the kettle is all old and beaten up, and the pot says to the kettle "hey kettle, you sure are black!"
. . .and then the pot shoots the kettle. Which wouldn't even kill a kettle! They seem to mostly shoot for the head in this movie, so, by proxy, it would just make the kettle whistle more, and it'd be alright. And that's about what I think of this movie. Yeah, metaphor worked out pretty well there.. might try using that one more often; hadn't tried it before :o
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Date: 2012-03-05 08:47 pm (UTC)