"what do the journalists think they are up to? Who do they work for, who reads their stories and looks at their photos? In American journalism movies the American People need to know whatever the journalist is reporting so they can Act."
My read was that the non-answers to those questions are part of the point: they don't really know what…
"what do the journalists think they are up to? Who do they work for, who reads their stories and looks at their photos? In American journalism movies the American People need to know whatever the journalist is reporting so they can Act."
My read was that the non-answers to those questions are part of the point: they don't really know what they're doing, nobody is reading their stories, and the American people just want it to go away. Both Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny's characters say their parents are trying to pretend the civil war isn't happening; Wagner Moura seems genuinely shaken that the only civilian they meet outside of a war zone is deliberately not paying any attention. Is making this record worth it even so? IMO that's the central question of the movie, and one it takes care not to answer (though I think it's ultimately more sympathetic to 'yes').
It is pretty blackly funny to think about from that angle.
That Americans are so used to tuning out misery they create around the world that theyd have no problem tuning out that same misery if it's two towns over.
I would like a little more explanation of how that towns "two yokels on a rooftop with rifles" defense force has managed to keep the US's predator drones, the Western Forces Badass Jets that seemingly only do barrel rolls, the Boogs and Jesse Plemons Freelance Death Squad at bay.
The Nicest Place In America Is In West Virginia is the clearest evidence they didn't give one thought to worldbuilding, and anyone complaining about such after watching that scene is a dope.
I mean Americans already do that (and they're by no means unique in that regard)! There are countless examples of disasters, crises, and mass killings that for a lot of people - even when they occur in the same country - never have more impact than a spot on the nightly news.
Yea but I'm old enough that "We don't give the weight to disasters in non-English speaking countries that we do in English speaking ones" was how we used to posture morally before 9/11.
The unspoken assumption was we'd care if What Couldn't Happen Here did, but obviously the 21st century democrats, party and voters, have put that notion completely to bed.
Old man reconciles what he was taught with what he's learned, I suppose was the headline on that comment.
"what do the journalists think they are up to? Who do they work for, who reads their stories and looks at their photos? In American journalism movies the American People need to know whatever the journalist is reporting so they can Act."
My read was that the non-answers to those questions are part of the point: they don't really know what they're doing, nobody is reading their stories, and the American people just want it to go away. Both Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny's characters say their parents are trying to pretend the civil war isn't happening; Wagner Moura seems genuinely shaken that the only civilian they meet outside of a war zone is deliberately not paying any attention. Is making this record worth it even so? IMO that's the central question of the movie, and one it takes care not to answer (though I think it's ultimately more sympathetic to 'yes').
It is pretty blackly funny to think about from that angle.
That Americans are so used to tuning out misery they create around the world that theyd have no problem tuning out that same misery if it's two towns over.
I would like a little more explanation of how that towns "two yokels on a rooftop with rifles" defense force has managed to keep the US's predator drones, the Western Forces Badass Jets that seemingly only do barrel rolls, the Boogs and Jesse Plemons Freelance Death Squad at bay.
The Nicest Place In America Is In West Virginia is the clearest evidence they didn't give one thought to worldbuilding, and anyone complaining about such after watching that scene is a dope.
I mean Americans already do that (and they're by no means unique in that regard)! There are countless examples of disasters, crises, and mass killings that for a lot of people - even when they occur in the same country - never have more impact than a spot on the nightly news.
Yea but I'm old enough that "We don't give the weight to disasters in non-English speaking countries that we do in English speaking ones" was how we used to posture morally before 9/11.
The unspoken assumption was we'd care if What Couldn't Happen Here did, but obviously the 21st century democrats, party and voters, have put that notion completely to bed.
Old man reconciles what he was taught with what he's learned, I suppose was the headline on that comment.