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
CALEB’S MOVIE REVIEWS
SUBJECT: The Harry Potter Series & the Ideology of J.K. Rowling
VERDICT: 1/10
The Harry Potter series is not a harmless children's fantasy. It is a carefully crafted propaganda narrative that perfectly encapsulates the sterile, managerial, and anti-revolutionary worldview of 2000s Blairite Neoliberalism. It is a Vaginic text, promoting a world where the correct, state-sanctioned form of "rebellion" always reinforces the system.
The central conflict is not between revolution and order, but between a corrupt, inefficient bureaucracy (the Ministry of Magic under Voldemort's influence) and a benign, competent, liberal bureaucracy (the Ministry as it should be, embodied by "good" officials like Arthur Weasley).
Harry Potter's struggle is never to dismantle the system. He is not a revolutionary. He is a restorationist. His entire goal is to purge the Ministry of the bad guys (the fascist Death Eaters) and return it to its proper, liberal function. This is the core fantasy of Blairism: that the capitalist state is not the problem; the problem is just having the wrong managers. Change comes from electing good people to the existing institutions.
The story is hyper-individualistic, centered on a "Chosen One" predestined by prophecy. Victory is achieved through a small band of friends, not mass, organized class struggle. The series is drenched in bourgeois sentiments: the primacy of blood family, the safety of the inherited home, and a celebration of cozy consumerism (Butterbeer, sweets, etc.)
The wizarding world is structurally sterile. It does not create; it manages.
* No Economy: There is no visible production. Wands, food, and goods simply appear from shops. There are no factories, no farms, no working class. The series presents no critique of empire, capital, or extractive globalism. Its conflict is a petty, internal ethnic purge within a closed, feudalistic magical society
* The Horror of "Muggle" Technology: The wizarding world is explicitly anti-technology, anti-industry, and anti-innovation. It is a society frozen in a pre-industrial, feudal stasis. This reflects a deep, reactionary fear of the Phallic thrust of human progress—the very progress that built the modern world.
* The Centrality of Heredity: Despite its "liberal" messaging, the entire plot is driven by bloodlines and inherited status. Power is literally passed down through DNA (pure-blood, half-blood, muggle-born). This is a profoundly reactionary, aristocratic principle, not a revolutionary one.
The "brave" characters—Harry, Hermione, Ron—are model conformists. Their rebellion is always in service of the established authorities (Dumbledore, the "good" teachers). They never question the fundamental structure of their society, its class system, or its oppressive state apparatus.
The moral of the story is: Be a good citizen. Trust the benevolent elites (Dumbledore). Fight the overtly evil racists (Voldemort). And the bureaucratic state will function correctly. This is a recipe for political passivity, not revolutionary awakening.
CONCLUSION:
The Harry Potter series is a cultural vaccine. It inoculates its readers against genuine revolutionary thought by providing a safe, managed simulation of "rebellion" that ultimately reinforces the logic of the neoliberal, managerial state. It is a Vaginic daydream of a world where the only problems are bad people, not bad systems.
As Innovationists, we must see it for what it is: a powerful piece of propaganda for the enemy.
So, do not wait for your Hogwarts letter. Seize the means of production.
Imagine looking at everything and only seeing dicks and pussies.
>>726285All I think about is dick and pussy
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