The more I think about the film the more one thing occurs to me – this film, this mess, this thing…resembles to me more than anything else a ‘Works Program’ – some sort of subsided project that employs people – like building a dam…no, not a dam – something more along the lines of those failed U.K. Millennium Projects – like the Dome and its contents. A huge of amount of money spent – no vision – everything cobbled together – no purpose – no theme – no reason to actually be.
Why do people go and see these pictures? I’ve been talking to folks in my ’social circle’ here in Belfast – everyone’s going to see it.
Why?
Maybe these huge blockbusters don’t so much resemble Western tax-funded cultural projects as they do Eastern ones; those massive North Korean crowd displays for instance. Perhaps this is an another indicator of ‘late-capitalism’ – people feel obligated to go; "You have to see it". We all have to have a copy of the Red Book, or say the Great Leader is Divine. Or attend the rally. Or watch this crap.
