I find it a bit troubling that such a gloomy and violent movie draws those high numbers of viewers. It's no "Taxi Driver 2019" though, at all.
I just watched last night and liked it. And this is probably one of things I liked the most, how relentlessly dismal the whole film was and at the same time how it's become a big blockbuster in the comic book genre no less. Even if it's a bit of a pastiche film and not massively deep I think films like this need this oxygen in mainstream cinema, there's no catharsis or misery relating to what allot of people can personally identify with. It's the unpleasantness of being confronted with issues that are lurking underneath, somewhere people don't feel comfortable dwelling on when they go out to a movie on a Friday night, it's not a place Hollywood usually goes. The idea of good and evil is a cancer imo.
I was fortunate not to know who the director was before watching or his comments about comedy being ruined by 'woke' culture, definitely would have biased my opinions while watching and probably still has a bit after reading it.
I thought the cinema scene was a bit close to the bone and not in a good way, totally unnecessary, and the whole thing of him being picked as a leader of a movement a bit clumsy and not fleshed out enough but I thought a nod to populism, which is fueled by nihilistic leaders not a nihilistic populace.
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