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cesium133:
It's not a "movie" but since I don't think there's a thread for Netflix shows...

I just finished watching the final season of "3%", which is a Netflix show (in Portuguese, though it has English subtitles), about a society in which 97% of the people live in crushing poverty, while the remaining 3% live on an island offshore in luxury. Who goes to the island is determined by a test, called "The Process", which is designed to figure out who deserves to go to the island. Meanwhile, the people outside the island are divided between The Church, which preaches in favor of The Process; The Cause, which fights against The Process; and the militia, which preys on whoever they can.

(click to show/hide)Something about the ending bugs me, though. After the island is destroyed and the 3% become refugees on the mainland, a war breaks out between the 3% and the mainlanders. One of the surviving characters in the show, Joana, comes up with a scheme to end the war: she found a test that the founders of the island had designed to be used in case of a war between the mainlanders and the 3%. Whoever wins, gets total control of society. Six people, representing several factions of the mainlanders and the 3% take part in the test, including Andre, the leader of the 3%, whose goal is to become a dictator ruling over the people who deserve to survive and killing the rest. Just as the final result is about to be revealed, Andre and Joana describe their plans for society if they succeed. Andre then signals to one of his supporters to destroy the test, preventing the result from being revealed (because he knew he was going to lose).

So, if this were realistic, I'd expect at this point, Andre and his followers refuse to accept the result and continue fighting the war. This result is even pointed at, with the Church preacher riling up his congregation against Joana, and when someone in the crowd contradicts him, he sics the crowd on her.

Instead, Andre's supporters abandon him, join with Joana's side, and Andre commits suicide, and everyone lives on in peace.

It just seems too... optimistic to me, especially compared to the rest of the story.

hedgie:
I've heard very good things about that one.  I just haven't watched it yet, since I rarely am simply focused on watching a film, and usually have it running on the other display.

Blue Kitty:
I just watched two weird movies, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot and The Little Hours

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot was sort of billed as an action movie, but for the most part Sam Elliot is in quiet repose about the things he had to do during the war and flashbacks to when he was with the woman he loved.

The Little Hours is about a group of nuns that take in a runaway and wacky shenanigans ensue. Mainly they wanna get with him/use him in witchcraft rituals. Amazing cast though, including: Allison Brie, Aubrey Plaza,Kate Miccuci, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Dave Franco, John C. Reily, Nick Offerman

Tova:
I watched this documentary yesterday. Referred to elsewhere, but more properly referred to here.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cnh8zpLaKI
It does lose a little momentum during the back half, but overall it is amazing and thought provoking, and includes some powerful moments. I can highly recommend it if you get the opportunity to watch it.

Thrillho:
So inspired by the point made by Spin earlier on, I've ended up falling down a couple of rabbit holes as far as both content and YouTube video essay.

Well, actually, I've also been on a huge jag of videos dunking on providence gospel movies, but that's unrelated.

Copaganda.

I've always been a fan of crime fiction and crime shows, and lately I developed a real taste for it after watching one called Unforgotten that I think is the only one I've seen that I would even consider suggesting Spin watching for not being Copaganda - except that simply having the police in it being good people may be enough to exclude it.

So I just keep watching cop show after cop show because I am becoming fascinated by the form, and I'm trying to find a single example of a crime TV series that doesn't eventually (or abruptly) result in the protagonists operating outside the law, with us expected to be cheering them on because in this case we know the law is Bad Apples or Bad Laws, so we can ignore those ones, because we have seen footage of the bad guy being a bad guy. But that's a nightmarish implication, and even shows that I held in hitherto high esteem like Line of Duty, a show which is about the unit within British police that investigations police corruption, ends up having to go against the rules. In this case, the Deputy Chief Constable is actually corrupt and we know he is, but that's not how real life works, real people don't get to see the footage and show it the whole public and show that this was the case all along so operating outside the law is fine.

This brings to mind a show which I semi-binged over the last few months, The Shield. I think this one may be damn near the closest one to having any kind of realistic view of police, but it requires you to watch the entire seven seasons of the show for that to pay off.

(click to show/hide)The main character is an outrageously corrupt police officer who covers himself extremely effectively, claiming the motivation was protecting and providing for his family. He also plants evidence and murders his colleagues and all sorts of other shady shit. This culminates in the final episode of the season with him managing to get a full pardon for all the terrible illegal shit he did in order to work for ICE, burying his 3rd best friend in the process. When he outs all of his shit in the interview before the pardon, ICE just move him into an admin job where he gets to do paperwork and wear a suit. His 3rd best friend goes to prison cursing his name. His very best friend has already committed suicide and killed his own family having already murdered their 2nd best friend when they all thought he might rat them out to internal affairs. His wife has gone into witness protection with his family to escape him. He has nothing, and he deserves every last bit of it. It is absolutely harrowing and the ending the show and the character deserved.
It makes me even angrier when I think back at Luther, a show I am beginning to enjoy hating because of how much it represents everything I think is wrong with crime fiction in the UK. It's like a direct window into the mortal fears of a Daily Mail acolyte.

And then the Copaganda examinations I've watched have shown me just how alarming this shit goes in things I haven't seen, like how the Dirty Harry movies constantly move the goalposts in response to the criticism the last movie faced, or how a show like Blue Bloods, and I am still in shock albeit unsurprised by this, had an episode where a white police officer threatened to throw a black suspect out of the window so the black suspect jumped to frame him for police brutality.

Once you know what Copaganda is, and start looking for its hallmarks, it is one of the most morbidly, horrifyingly fascinating things.

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