A way to make a lot of dudes understand this pretty quickly is to put it into football terms. Most people aren't going to be able to name every member of the offensive line, but they know when a QB has time to throw or a running back gains yards. He's not in it for the stats, he's in it for the win.
Honestly, I didn't hate it. It did a lot of things rather well in my opinion and it kept me engaged. My issue is how batty I feel - knowing what the director said he was trying to do vs. what I saw him do - and wondering which one of us is a dumbass.
Amon-Ra St. Brown stop it
I'd argue any country that has fallen to such a degree had some pretty massive failures in the media to get to that point!
Oh absolutely not. That's the funny thing. He wanted the press to be heroes, but looking at the hell they put themselves through to get the fascist president's 3 final words on the record, it's like, "that's it?! That's worth getting your friends killed? Him saying 'Don't kill me'?"
If you look at it as an indictment of a complicit press it works pretty well. Dunst's character is an awful hypocrite who perpetuates enough abuse to stop the next generation from trying to do things differently.
My word, Lions
I know that what he said he was going for, but that really wasn't the movie he made.