ran it back —- watched two nights in a row. amazingly satirical & inventive, caught things I hadn’t seen the first time. main thoughts:

- boots rileys understanding of the role that police, militarism, and incarceration play seems unclear to me 
- most people who espouse terrible class warfare propaganda are not rich people in skin suits, they’re mostly just also “the masses” even though I get that the skin suits were more about media control 
- agree that situational acceleration…

this movie made me want to say LONG LIVE HEATHERS (1988) — bring back some good ol fashion fucked up satire bc I’m so over this pathetically boring genre of “ny mag” / “cut” commentary filmmaking (think Past Lives / Materialists). sorry to sound like a boomer but I don’t want to (once again) interrogate the relationships of wealthy white straight normie urbanites who all hate each other. nor do I want to be dragged along murky “race-blind” ruminations on…

at the end I was like, ok my big takeaway is that it’s not easy to have a gifted child  

and i’m not sure how purposeful it was, but this really read as a satire of the ways in which anti-communist sentiments, partially driven by the engineered political and cultural opposition to north korea , have twisted and polluted south korean values. the references to korean participation in killing vietcong and how this afterlife carries through modern day values…