"...politics is an aesthetic, not a practice." So perfectly encapsulates even the "praise" around this movie, which has good things to say about how it looks and the images it's meant to represent to the audience, but no one can point out anything beyond rhetoric.
This is such a sharp piece of criticism. The observation about politics as aesthetic rather than practice really captures the whole thing perfectly. I've been fascianted by how the film uses style to paper over the contradictions, like the Black music cues playing while the administration's actual policies go unexamined. The ending scene with the woman from Peru saying she came here legally says so much about how this stuff gets internalized.
"...politics is an aesthetic, not a practice." So perfectly encapsulates even the "praise" around this movie, which has good things to say about how it looks and the images it's meant to represent to the audience, but no one can point out anything beyond rhetoric.
This is such a sharp piece of criticism. The observation about politics as aesthetic rather than practice really captures the whole thing perfectly. I've been fascianted by how the film uses style to paper over the contradictions, like the Black music cues playing while the administration's actual policies go unexamined. The ending scene with the woman from Peru saying she came here legally says so much about how this stuff gets internalized.
Excellent analysis; mapping the empty signifier problem to this calculated propaganda push realy gets to the core of it.