State of Play
Rachel McAdams starring in State of Play
Thought I’d point out two recent films on the screens with very clever disinformation strategies that leave the viewer wanting for answers, that is if he has questions in the first instance…
The first film is State of Play with Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams and Ben Affleck, a suspense spoof filmed here in DC.
In a nutshell, aside from its horrendous camerawork and budgetary problems, the film deals a glaring sleight of hand, which once detected is inexcusably inept and so lacking in conscience only a reptilian mind would find palatable.
While the film starts by touching on corporate conspiracies, it goes on to blatantly ridicule any such notion as preposterous and ends the story with, yet again, a lone crazy despot and the formulaic corrupt politician! But in a stifling omission, it never resolves the more sinister and global ramifications of the original allegations of corporate fraud…
In other words the subtext is:
“dontcha know, the corporations never ever commit fraud or engage in deception? If you so much as even suspect the power structure as colluding to deceive you, then you must be wearing a tinfoil hat and…
But go ahead and pursue your paranoid delusions, in the end you will no doubt find that it’s the lone kook, and we’ll have to just tell you that ‘we told ya so!’ See?
The thought that ‘We The Rulers’ and business elite do not have your best interest in mind as we go through our grueling ivy league schools and tenaciously pursue our privileged careers is an insult to the eternally noble act of charity we the elite have vowed our illuminated lives toward. We are selfless and benevolent caretakers of your otherwise miserably failed lives; we love you so even as you mistrust us…”
So the state of play really refers to you, the hapless consumer of propaganda, being played for all you got!
The second film is Earth by Disney – next blog right below!
Peace,
-Iliad Terra
