I had the opposite reaction. I thought the movie captured essence of the subject material so exceptionally that I don’t want to see it again, it would just make me depressed. There’s some truth to satire but in this case the satire ended up being too close to the truth. I think COVID did this movie a solid. Without COVID I probably would’ve dismissed the movie as too unrealistically over the top. But with COVID literally keeping me home there were just too many parallels for me to dismiss the movie as “it would never happen, we’re better than that”. Ugh, just thinking about it is getting me down.
It was so on point in a lot of things, it wasn’t satire, it was basically a documentary. I love that movie. And also hate it. For the same reasons as you do.
That’s also what I loved it the Death To 2020 and Death To 2021 movies by Charlie Booker. They’re mockumentaries when they were released, but now, just 2 years later, they’ve gotten less “far from reality”, to put it that way.
I had the opposite reaction. I thought the movie captured essence of the subject material so exceptionally that I don’t want to see it again, it would just make me depressed. There’s some truth to satire but in this case the satire ended up being too close to the truth. I think COVID did this movie a solid. Without COVID I probably would’ve dismissed the movie as too unrealistically over the top. But with COVID literally keeping me home there were just too many parallels for me to dismiss the movie as “it would never happen, we’re better than that”. Ugh, just thinking about it is getting me down.
It was so on point in a lot of things, it wasn’t satire, it was basically a documentary. I love that movie. And also hate it. For the same reasons as you do.
That’s also what I loved it the Death To 2020 and Death To 2021 movies by Charlie Booker. They’re mockumentaries when they were released, but now, just 2 years later, they’ve gotten less “far from reality”, to put it that way.