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ZeldaTPLink posted...

This is interesting. I've seen negative reviews from people who identify as left-wing, or progressives, saying the film is bad because it legitimizes the incel ideology. Meanwhile you see conservative or right-wing people bashing them in the comments.

But myself, I want to disagree with the reviews (although I haven't seen the film yet) for entire different reasons. Because, as much as I think incels are silly, there is something that creates them, which is this extremely individualist and inequal society we live in. It seems the film aims to explain how extremists are created, not by legitimizing them, but by showing the sick world that created them.

But nowadays all sides in politics can only argue by pretending the other side is evil. "Angry white men" are evil and their woes are not relevant, they think. When the truth is that everyone's woes are the result of the bigger system that is broken.

I haven't seen the movie but I think a lot of the criticism is because the movie just sounds like taxi driver rebranded as joker, which is pretty cynical. It's like making a Wishbone episode. It's not even the same as like, how avatar is similar to fern gully or dances with wolves...sure the themes and plot are similar, but this one has the same theme and plot but extra marketing potential by just slapping a famous character on it. It doesn't even use the same character origins you find in the comic books for the character, it's like someone had a screenplay and they were like ehh I don't know, then they were like uh what if we make it a comic book movie to sell it.

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