Timelessly entertaining, cinematic wonder, etc... Yet - much needs to be said on how this together with "The General" make Keaton a mass cultural factor in the rise of the second KKK in the 1920s and the Southern Democrat reaction enshrined with the rise to power of Wilson. I mean, a whole steamboat named after "Stonewall Jackson" and set in Mississippi, c'mon. Someone needs to write the book on white supremacy in American mass culture with the coming of cinema, from "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915 to this, from WWI to the Great Depression, if someone hasn't already

Gen Z elegy for the Boomer mind - America entering a state of dementia with the end of the Cold War. Might even be a way to analyze it as metaphor for AI destroying the world

I want what Migi and Shinichi have