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.netOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    4 years ago

    And of course, the perennial answer, Anastasia (1997), which portrays the Russian Revolution as the result of a wizard’s curse, and communism as evil because it got in the way of the Romanovs wearing fancy clothes. The stage version took things one step further by having an NKVD agent as the villain