

I just watched it for the first time last year, it had been one of those “always on the list” but just never happened.
It translates well and was insightful for me. I was shocked by the dialogue in a good way; remembering how much people used to be able to communicate with each other, handle complex emotions without shutting down forever, recover, and grow stronger. In 2025 where people barely talk about real things to their friends and family in the US let alone strangers, it is such a stark reminder of what has been lost to cable TV and cell phones in the intervening decades since the movie came out. Not that everyone used to talk like that on a everyday basis but if you put out a movie like that now many people wouldn’t even watch it, or be able to process it.
News outlets taking quotes from company PR/employees and including them alongside facts about reality. “Company x does something horrible, here is the data. Meanwhile, the CEO says it’s inaccurate because bs reasonexcuse.”. So much of corporate media is this, we’ve nearly lost the expectation a news outlet have any sense of responsibility outside of an easy quote from the paid company representative. Every single employee quote should come with footer “but of course this person does pay their mortgage based on saying whatever the companies needs it to to continue doing what benefits it the most so this is idiotically biased”.