I'm only halfway through this, but I can confidently say the entire movie is literally aura and hype moments: middle-class angst edition. "At war with the everyday world" is a nice example of PB delusion. They don't and can't do jackfuck to change the world around them, so they romanticise their impotence instead.
Honestly, the movie is fun. Not bad at all. But part of my enjoyment is probably ironic since I can't take the messaging seriously at all.
I mean, that's straight up what the movie is about
>>720881It takes your average PB nobody and throws him in every other monotonous red-tape-covered situation the average Joe finds himself in (but this time with a gun!). It's vacuous as fuck.
>>720875Misunderstood the message award
I wish whitoids didn't have a monopoly on angry misanthropic wagie male movies
>>720875i like when he gets gunned down like a dog
>>720875>Set in Los Angeles, the film tells the story of William Foster, a disgruntled, unemployed defense worker who abandons his car in the middle of a traffic jam and goes on a violent rampage trying to reach his family for his daughter's birthday.- [wikipedia](
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Down)
Well that'd be PMC turned lumpen, not petbooj.
This movie was made by one of the campiest directors in modern Hollywood. It's deliberately embracing the GTA-ish absurdity of a particular kind of male middle class fantasy and having fun with that. "Ironic" is probably too simple of a framing, it's not constantly winking at you and saying "this is bad actually", it's closer to the creators choosing to embody a mindset/worldview that's not their own.
The coolest part is when he pulls out that rocket launcher that he took from the neo Nazi pawn shop owner and blasts those cholos in their low rider.
the message is that there is no message, it's the joker but pmc - that's the most important part. there are no means to express or articulate his discomfort with reality and therefore the only thing left are individual outbursts of violence. maybe the only other important observation is that because the movie is like 40 years old, it tries to make a point that the guy isn't openly racist, while his modern counterpart would be very vocally, almost cartoonishly, racist, but that's it
it's like the luddites: there was no socialism to channel their discontent towards a viable political alternative, so they just destroyed factories and then were defeated because burning machines is not a sustainable strategy against capitalism. now that socialism (and anything that isn't hyper-individualism) has been annihilated from the mainstream and that people are too scared of surveillance to do anything collectively, you are only going to have jokers (left) and falling down guys (right)
>>721099>it tries to make a point that the guy isn't openly racist, while his modern counterpart would be very vocally, almost cartoonishly, racist, but that's itI think guys like this still exist, it's the kind of person who says shit like "the problem isn't race, it's black culture". He has a racial bias (which the movie makes clear) but doesn't like seeing himself as a racist and might even be able to temporarily suspend that bias for a single individual.
>>721194I think it is a faulty assumption to consider acting like a caveman somehow a natural need to be fulfilled. You need some outlet for libidinal energies, but that can simply be intellectually stimulating and fulfilling work and making out with a cute girl at a techno show. Desire to stab boars with a knife is a result of frustrations of modern age, not a solution to them.
>>721194Plenty of people in modernity, especially in the recent golden American past, did in fact manage to find some way to solve their innate desire to go hunt boars, strangely by doing things that had nothing to do with hunting boars.
>>721221We technically have a movie thread on /hobby/ but that's a dead-ass board.
>>721194Maybe playing MineCraft spared me from becoming a retvrn type, since MineCraft scratched that itch just fine.
>>721124Your take contains all of those terms in itself, yet you have not dicarded it. That's a paradox.
>>7212212nd part is ok but first one was rather boring IMO.
>>721229got it, only lore i got at hand is the planet named dance in arabic the fremen are some native types practicing essentially islamo buddhism sand worms and a blue crack powder that turns your eyes nordic. how did they make all this boring? too much shots of people talking?
>>721221First one is a solid but not super interesting space opera. Second one has some more creative visual choices and grandiose feelings and other stuff that's actually memorable, but it's a bit too long.
>>721221this series was like star wars for the newer generation, it had such a cult for a while but i doubt it will have as much movies and pop culture mainstream popularity same way star wars did with boom booms and millenials
>>721221westoid sci-fi, which is to say, 3-act cliche plot + fascist apologia
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