So is One Bad After Another really good? Or bad? Or meh? Or very divisive and all 3 to different people? #
I thought I was hearing nothing but good things, except I think from FD Signifier, but now I can’t tell anymore. Maybe I need to watch it, but don’t want to waste my time if it’s not as good as say, Andor, at examining left-wing revolutionary politics.
Well, it’s not a treatise on political economy or a platform for a party. It’s pretty much just a fun action/comedy set in a small scale conflict between a leftist underground group and a bunch of nazis and ICE goons.
It’s at the very least entertaining, I’d give it a shot.
I think you should watch it but consider that the movie isn’t necessarily taking your side and Paul Thomas Anderson is, at best, a sympathetic lib but definitely not a leftist.
IMO the conclusion of the movie doesn’t really make sense if you assume that the movie is written from a perspective of “good people want socialism to Actually Happen” more like “good people can like the Idea Of Socialism”
It was better than you think, if you were thinking it’s Don’t Look Up levels of bad. But it also kind of betrays an idealism it tries to convince you it’s arguing against thematically. I don’t have much bad can I say about it without spoiling, but the politics of the movie would be more coherent if Benicio del Toro’s story was more important to the overall plot/themes, I’ll put it that way.
So is One Bad After Another really good? Or bad? Or meh? Or very divisive and all 3 to different people? #
I thought I was hearing nothing but good things, except I think from FD Signifier, but now I can’t tell anymore. Maybe I need to watch it, but don’t want to waste my time if it’s not as good as say, Andor, at examining left-wing revolutionary politics.
Well, it’s not a treatise on political economy or a platform for a party. It’s pretty much just a fun action/comedy set in a small scale conflict between a leftist underground group and a bunch of nazis and ICE goons.
It’s at the very least entertaining, I’d give it a shot.
That sounds fun
I think you should watch it but consider that the movie isn’t necessarily taking your side and Paul Thomas Anderson is, at best, a sympathetic lib but definitely not a leftist.
IMO the conclusion of the movie doesn’t really make sense if you assume that the movie is written from a perspective of “good people want socialism to Actually Happen” more like “good people can like the Idea Of Socialism”
It was better than you think, if you were thinking it’s Don’t Look Up levels of bad. But it also kind of betrays an idealism it tries to convince you it’s arguing against thematically. I don’t have much bad can I say about it without spoiling, but the politics of the movie would be more coherent if Benicio del Toro’s story was more important to the overall plot/themes, I’ll put it that way.