It was good at first. I quite enjoyed the style and the comedy. It criticized by showing. It even taught, with respect to taxes. But then in the end it got too preachy, too obvious, patronizing, moralizing, self-righteous. And it was just awful. If the movie had kept the not-so-subtlety, it would have been a solid film. But the over the top emotional preachiness just ruined it.
Then, to top it all off, (because the rich avoiding taxes and teaching the lower classes pretty poorly, and the refugees and the bad working conditions, and the exploitation of the poor in developing countries wasn't enough) it needs to make the most ludicrous, absurd point of sexist inequality by pointing out that 80% of garment workers are women, and 9 out of 10 billionaires are men. Just like that, out of the blue, at the end of the movie. Why?
I guess because men being the victims of job accidents and as 23 times more likely to get killed at their job doesn't matter? Because the people who clean septic tanks without gear, the ones going to war, the ones getting melted alive at chemical factories, the ones dying in gang violence, the people with lower life expectancy... being mostly male doesn't matter? No, the only men we should compare poor women to are rich men, because that way we make women the victims here, not because they're poor, but because they're women; and poor men are just a fantasy. And rich women don't exist.
Absurd, really.
Then, to top it all off, (because the rich avoiding taxes and teaching the lower classes pretty poorly, and the refugees and the bad working conditions, and the exploitation of the poor in developing countries wasn't enough) it needs to make the most ludicrous, absurd point of sexist inequality by pointing out that 80% of garment workers are women, and 9 out of 10 billionaires are men. Just like that, out of the blue, at the end of the movie. Why?
I guess because men being the victims of job accidents and as 23 times more likely to get killed at their job doesn't matter? Because the people who clean septic tanks without gear, the ones going to war, the ones getting melted alive at chemical factories, the ones dying in gang violence, the people with lower life expectancy... being mostly male doesn't matter? No, the only men we should compare poor women to are rich men, because that way we make women the victims here, not because they're poor, but because they're women; and poor men are just a fantasy. And rich women don't exist.
Absurd, really.
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