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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 27 Aug 2024 \ on: Falling Down - the Great American Lie ideasfromtheedge
This review is missing a key dimension of implication and message. Bill being a former "D-Fens" contractor and being laid off means he was doing things to help defend America--at least in his estimation. That same industry laid him off, since that industry was not, in the movie, about Patriotism. The rest of the movie is also not about Patriotism. It is about people who are in America who do not love it. They instead love some of what it offers so they can and do what they wish. This places Bill at "War" with what he was formerly defending, and that system winds up branding him "the problem" or "the bad guy".
The caution here is not against the American Dream. It is against those who would overtake the American Dream and plant a version of hell in America instead.