How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It (2019)
• October 28th, 2019 • 0h 47min
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Overview
"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how most beloved characters are subtly more well-off than they should be, how criticisms of the system are crushed, how the rich have become the average in the world of the cinema. And it shows how these stories distort the view of the real world, and are used against you by politicians.
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