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But is it a movie about empowerment, or annihilation?
Sam Levinsons film takes place in the small suburban enclave of Salem (literary allusion alert!
But nuance, sincerity, and humanity are impossible in this ruthless atmosphere.
But the truth is no one wants the real you …
They only want pieces and parts.
They want to pick and choose.
Overstuffed with contemporary newspeak,Assassination Nationpresents an exaggerated portrait of the sounds and textures of todays America.
The jurys out on whether the time were living in is any more hopeless than other periods in history.
And our cultural products seem to reflect this, too.
Honesty, in other words, is the worst policy in the movies vision of America.
But as withAssassination Nation, its mood of paranoid desperation rang very true.
(Har har.)
And yet,Bushwickisnt exactly a depressing picture.
Of course, these are all just movies, and often stupid ones at that.
It doesnt seek reconciliation, or find solutions, or even deliver a cheap and fake happy ending.
Because in the movies, we can admit to ourselves that sometimes its best to let the temple burn.
