Neil Breens movies are usually a bit confusing, but his critique on politics here is very funny. The way I view the scene, Neil Breen is fed up with modern society, his character supposedly knows about a bunch of corruption that is going on (the leaked info that his character has found is never disclosed to the audience), and whatever information he has leaked is apparently big enough for everyone it affects to admit to their wrongdoing and kill themselves with barely any attempts to hold on to their power. Neil Breens speech ends with “Act now! On your own, outside of the corporate systems and these incompetent politicians! Its our only hope for the future.” …which could mean a lot of things.
Neil Breen, like many Americans, is fed up with society, scared of the future, and has little information or perspective on what the problem is.
any Neil Breen watchers here have an interesting take on this?
I have a similar read of this scene and other Breen commentaries on the government. IMO he’s about as coherent politically as the average American, the difference is just that they haven’t tried to put their understanding of politics on camera. He understands intuitively that people are being screwed and that the wealthy are responsible, but he imagines this exploitation as people gathering in champagne rooms and plotting to steal everyone else’s money and laughing about it like Bond villains. Unironically I would love to see him read Marx and what kind of movie he would make if he did, but IIRC he’s a Las Vegas realtor so he’s got his own class position that effects how deep his critique can go.
i really hope when his new movie comes out it has a ton of Marxist themes