What is truth in media? What is justice when news can spin any story it wants? What’s a narrative that isn’t spun by someone? who doesn’t have an agenda?
This movie starts out as a very selfish character movie (I like those) and ends making you feel upset for everyone wronged who didn’t get their justice properly. Sure we want Leo dead but the way it happened still felt wrong in a sense, at least to me, where a the narrative spun into a race+class+political sense. Just another black crime end.
Reeves character is a white man who gets out of it largely fine, it’s all the women in this movie connected to him that get hurt. Everything related to him gets hurt but him until the end and in comparison isn’t that bad. I found the shift from classic selfish liar to a somewhat critical perspective of white men interesting. I found the general line of how news/media determine how we reinforce stereotypes and ideals interesting too.
I hated how the women were treated here, but it serves the purpose of misogyny that this movie points out.
Everyone here was used in Reeves stepping stool, and spun out because HE pushed it (of course this is a movie) but it doesn’t take away the fact of how easy it is to have an agenda and spin a story based on it. I found that concept through the movie interesting, then building on race and class to it. Interesting movie, I’m still unsure about it but interesting.
What is truth in media? What is justice when news can spin any story it wants? What’s a narrative that isn’t spun by someone? who doesn’t have an agenda?
This movie starts out as a very selfish character movie (I like those) and ends making you feel upset for everyone wronged who didn’t get their justice properly. Sure we want Leo dead but the way it happened still felt wrong in a sense, at least to me, where a the narrative spun into a race+class+political sense. Just another black crime end.
Reeves character is a white man who gets out of it largely fine, it’s all the women in this movie connected to him that get hurt. Everything related to him gets hurt but him until the end and in comparison isn’t that bad. I found the shift from classic selfish liar to a somewhat critical perspective of white men interesting. I found the general line of how news/media determine how we reinforce stereotypes and ideals interesting too.
I hated how the women were treated here, but it serves the purpose of misogyny that this movie points out.
Everyone here was used in Reeves stepping stool, and spun out because HE pushed it (of course this is a movie) but it doesn’t take away the fact of how easy it is to have an agenda and spin a story based on it. I found that concept through the movie interesting, then building on race and class to it. Interesting movie, I’m still unsure about it but interesting.
