I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar...
The meta of this scene is that the network only allows it because it’s pure spectacle, and everyone goes back to their normal ignorant apathetic existences afterwards, with nothing changed.
Right? What he’s saying is absolutely incredible and stirring, but it’s also useless, because it’s just words, and everyone takes it as a performance and a “viral moment” and then goes back to the next program on the dial. It’s incredibly prescient.
The meta of this scene is that the network only allows it because it’s pure spectacle, and everyone goes back to their normal ignorant apathetic existences afterwards, with nothing changed.
That’s what makes it so good imo. It has layers.
Right? What he’s saying is absolutely incredible and stirring, but it’s also useless, because it’s just words, and everyone takes it as a performance and a “viral moment” and then goes back to the next program on the dial. It’s incredibly prescient.