Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Under the guise of American realism, a malicious and condescending gaze at the lives of ordinary people from the perspective of the white upper-middle class. The lives of the working class, living in non-mobile communities, are portrayed as decaying and stuck in a dead end. But is that how they experience their lives?
A masterpiece. A sharp cinematic exploration of the question of the banality of evil, following in the tradition of Hannah Arendt—only with a far more complex answer: Evil is not inherent in people but in their deep embeddedness in evil practices.