Do you guys think it’s getting out of hand how much politics is playing a role in todays media? I can’t even go and enjoy a movie without there being either Republicans being mocked, or Democrats being mocked. Why can’t I just see a movie about monsters fighting each other without there being a message pushed. Just let me see how monster A fight Monster B, give me an actual villain and not one mocking one of the politicians that’s currently running or pushed to run.
Edit: I don’t think I conveyed my message across well, as a couple people have pointed out and given a better view of it. “It’s not the politics. It’s the fact that the politics are front and center, where characters have to talk about them to get their point across, rather than baked into the themes of our story and only present in how the story plays out. The first is amateur writing that can’t really do anything more than be propaganda for whatever ideology the characters are pushing, where the second makes any story much deeper and more enjoyable to watch. It’s a question of the quality of writing, not if it’s there or not.”
However, I don’t think the problem is politics in movies, rather “in your face” politics in movies. As another commenter pointed out, even Godzilla had political undertones. The difference is it was more nuanced. It found a way to share a message without being preachy or condescending.
The problem with movies today is that filmmakers try to dumb down their messages so that all audiences and more importantly, maturity levels can understand it.
Personally speaking, I think the movies with the best messages are the ones that make you think and see how the characters organically got to their viewpoints. Today it seems that filmmakers today get lazy and treat social issues like a given and if you as the audience member have an issue with that, you’re the problem.
Modern politics on both ends of the spectrum have a “keep up or get left behind” method. It’s isolating and drives opposition further away. Movies of the past, I feel, were designed to bring us together under unified causes. Today they seem to be hollow imitations of that.
Thank you Ship_write and inconspicuousD for giving me this point of view. Thank you to all that have actually helped me think of this as well.
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