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.
