The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) has to be up there. Literally glorifies the stock market and presents a finance bro job as the key to happiness. There’s a scene near the start where Will Smith is outside the NYSE looking at all the suits going in and out and narrating how he was inspired by how happy everyone was, and how this inspired him to bootlick his way into some internship, the pursuit of which literally requires him to alienate his friends and family and sleep in subway bathrooms with his five-year-old son. Everyone in the movie is a lazy, unscrupulous asshole, except for the rich people, of course, who are portrayed as generous and open-minded for allowing Will Smith in the door after he kisses their asses the whole movie. All of his struggle with homelessness and poverty etc. is portrayed not as injustice but as the ideal scenario, rewarding the hardest, most dedicated worker with a job. It is literally r/upliftingnews: the movie.

  • wombat [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    3 years ago

    The Lion King features animals literally bowing down in subservience to the animals that eat them, and this is explicitly justified in the movie, because monarchs eating their subjects is just the “circle of life”

    • FidelCashflow [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 years ago

      I saw it in theaters and it wa wild. Somehoe seeing the animals in realistic cgi really drove it home to me. No one I was at the Dennys with after the film got with it though.

      I ask you though. After an undetermined period of Scar’s managemnt does not the savanna thrive? The lions complain they are not allowed the riches they once enjoyed. But fuck em. Fucking disney makes a movie about a strong African woman protecting her people and it works. Then tells us we aren’t supposed to be hapoy it worked