As the most powerful country in the world, people have too many expectations and illusions about this "human hope". So, what is a real America? The Empire State Building built in 410 days? It represents the industrious unity of the American people. Gunpowder on Iwo Jima? It represents the tenacity and bravery of the American people. Apollo spacecraft flying to the moon? It represents the exploratory spirit of the American people. An army sufficient to fight alien invasion? It represents the crisis consciousness of the American people. Vulgar reality show and paparazzi? What does it represent... well... what does it represent?
In this way, we can roughly piece together the outline of the United States. The Empire State Building is still there, but the efficiency and enthusiasm that has created it has disappeared; Iwo Jima is still there, but people will only travel there to take pictures; the Apollo spacecraft is still there, but decades have passed without waiting for the next visitor; If the planets do not come to invade, they will have to make great efforts to build weapons and ammunition, because the "military-industrial complex" has to bear the food problem of 10% of the population. Only with the thriving entertainment culture, how many seasons have you filmed "Gossip Girl"?
Compared with the erosion of entertainment culture on people’s spiritual world, what is more serious is that people have begun to feel more and more accepting the transformation of entertainment culture, and they have to find some sad nourishment from these cultural wastes to survive, as if knowingly. Hamburger fries are not beneficial but they have to live on. Three sentences are not separated from Lindsay Lohan, and five sentences are not separated from the gossip of Aniston and Julie. The discussion of national policy has become a mere vent of anger. The media believes in the truth of "fist and pillow" reporting. People live impetuous, superficial and stinky days. Everyone hates privileges but also hates their own lack of privileges. Children become money-worshiping and arrogant. People show incredible anger at different opinions. Finally, they say "freedom of speech". That's it.
This is the world shown in the movie. This is the world the Americans live in. Under the turbulent wave of globalization, this is actually the world everyone lives in. So when Frank and Roxy use bullets to end one life after another, we won't have the slightest pity, because these noisy bodies really have no meaning. When the two protagonists usher in the end of their lives, we will not feel the slightest sadness, because we and our society are on the road of self-destruction just like the people in the play.
God bless America? God's fucking dead long ago.
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