I’ve been wondering for some time now when that would change, when the genius would emerge whose art both critiques the lazy, uninspired mediocrity that is currently the backdrop to our children’s youth and points to the obvious truths that no one has been willing to admit..
Turn on the TV. Pop culture is a mirror. It is it’s own critique.
>>I’ve been wondering for some time now when that would change, when the genius would emerge whose art both critiques the lazy, uninspired mediocrity that is currently the backdrop to our children’s youth and points to the obvious truths that no one has been willing to admit..
>Turn on the TV. Pop culture is a mirror. It is it’s own critique.
Sure, but it’s a critique that leads itself and the public in a self-perpetuating circle. Right now, all the media attack the USA, our military, our corporations, our religions and our families.
Just came back from No Country For Old Men. A Texas welder while on a hunting trip comes across a heroin deal gone bad. He finds $2,000,0000 and spends most of the story battling the hired psychopath sent to retrieve the cash.
Nearly all the bad guys are Mexican or Indian. Instead of MS13 or Zeta thugs as the kingpins, the drugs are owned by a corporate American.
The film is framed with scenes at the beginning and end with Tommy Lee Jones as an aging sheriff who is too tired to prevent all the collateral damage as the protagonist and antagonist shoot at each other.
One way to read the film - one of the strongest suggestions - is that American law enforcement is too old to prevent the Mexican criminal avalanche.
Let’s hear a round of applause for the Coen Brothers as refuse to suggest America’s way to better days. Instead, in keeping with their 60s world view, they wring out a slow moving funeral dirge.