There is a shifting of themes that basically tracks with the corporate takeover of the US government.
(1993) Companies fucking around with systems they don’t understand is the problem. Rich guy underestimates nature.
(1997) Rich guy learned lesson. Corporate greed did not.
(2001) post-dotcom crash: A rich fucker and his stupid family learn the lesson about the company that fucked with nature. Governments are bad for not interveneing.
(2015) post-Birther: Company and its rich founder are naive and innocent. US Government and US education are the bad guys.
(2018) Corporate suits are the good guys. Science is the bad guys.
(2022) A (suddenly) European company is the bad guys. Science is again the bad guy. Americans are the good guys.
(2025) The US company and Military are the good guys.
I do agree with the main point of your post; however, I feel that your reasoning is backwards.
Big blockbusters give the masses a dose of placebo. You see a movie where people who hold your values win, so you feel like it happened in real life, so you’re less likely to make it happen in real life.
So I’m not spoiling this movie, look at the MCU instead: They defeated Thanos and stopped half the world’s population from disappearing, and then we failed to properly fight COVID and Donald Trump gained power.
Now, I know correlation doesn’t equal causation, and that there were other factors at play, but I also know that when you perceive the image of something, it activates the same neurons as actually seeing that thing - when you watch The Notebook or Armageddon, you feel the emotions of the characters in the film, and you cry.
That, combined with the other psychological tactics that we are constantly being bombarded with, make it difficult for us to navigate the world with a clear head. When you feel like you’re winning, why would you fight?
And also, a TON of people are straight apathetic, and a lot more are just plain-old stupid. And there are dozens or hundreds of other factors such as personality of the audience, socioeconomics, religious beliefs, etc… that come into play here as well. It’s not quite as cut-and-dry as “monkey see, monkey feels as though it has done,” but that does play a large factor in it.
I typed all this but didn’t proofread any of it, so I hope it makes sense. I’m sleepy.
I think people at different levels of media literacy read/watch stories differently.
I think people with different politics maybe do too; im an anarchist, at best an incoherent and extremely skip-that-part version of what i believe gets spouted by the villain.
There is a shifting of themes that basically tracks with the corporate takeover of the US government.
The 7th was explicitly anti corporation lol
Did you actually see the 2025 movie? No way the theme you got from that is US Corpo good. If anything g it’s literally the opposite.
I didn’t see anything else than 2025. Pretty bad.
But...(spoiler)
But the main character literally decides to open-source the data instead of selling it to a pharma corp.
I do agree with the main point of your post; however, I feel that your reasoning is backwards.
Big blockbusters give the masses a dose of placebo. You see a movie where people who hold your values win, so you feel like it happened in real life, so you’re less likely to make it happen in real life.
So I’m not spoiling this movie, look at the MCU instead: They defeated Thanos and stopped half the world’s population from disappearing, and then we failed to properly fight COVID and Donald Trump gained power.
Now, I know correlation doesn’t equal causation, and that there were other factors at play, but I also know that when you perceive the image of something, it activates the same neurons as actually seeing that thing - when you watch The Notebook or Armageddon, you feel the emotions of the characters in the film, and you cry.
That, combined with the other psychological tactics that we are constantly being bombarded with, make it difficult for us to navigate the world with a clear head. When you feel like you’re winning, why would you fight?
And also, a TON of people are straight apathetic, and a lot more are just plain-old stupid. And there are dozens or hundreds of other factors such as personality of the audience, socioeconomics, religious beliefs, etc… that come into play here as well. It’s not quite as cut-and-dry as “monkey see, monkey feels as though it has done,” but that does play a large factor in it.
I typed all this but didn’t proofread any of it, so I hope it makes sense. I’m sleepy.
I think people at different levels of media literacy read/watch stories differently.
I think people with different politics maybe do too; im an anarchist, at best an incoherent and extremely skip-that-part version of what i believe gets spouted by the villain.
We live in a society, am I right?
I agree with your comment.