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.
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.
I know that what he said he was going for, but that really wasn't the movie he made.
The strain of conservative that evolves from failed artistic pursuit is so funny. Learning that art has structure that makes the art effective is absolutely anathema to them. Conservative "comedians" don't really exist because Set Up/Punchline is too complicated.
Is this the one that has the breakdown in the last 30 seconds instead of the first 30 seconds?
It always strikes me as odd when people with her type of background want to get into politics without, like, railing against the system to begin with. Almost as strange as Rogers running on his FBI background; don't all the Trump fans hate them now?