#If you feel hurt by this I'd recommend looking at the liberal parties
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This has probably been said before, but the final scene of Glass Onion was really interesting in terms of how much of a pointed commentary about liberalism it is.
First no one helps Helen - they just look away and close their eyes. But then Helen gets going, and people start rallying and joining in on the destruction - until Miles Bron starts getting irate, and they realize she's actually going for it in the face of potential repercussions from the one who holds power currently. Then they try to stop the violence, but she refuses to stop in the face of their shouting.
It's only after she's burned the place down and told Bron exactly how she'll sink him that they start rallying again, after a solution has been found and presented. But Helen didn't need them, she already had what she needed to sink Bron. Sure, it was better than them, like, killing her on Bron's behalf - but they didn't help. They performatively danced around and then tried to maintain the status quo, only ingratiating themselves to the winning side after all was said and done. If you can't see the allegory about liberals, I don't know what to tell you.
#Glass Onion#Liberal#Politics#If you feel hurt by this I'd recommend looking at the liberal parties#And asking what they've actually done that doesn't appease conservatives and maintain the status quo#Things are starting to change!#But they're only going to continue to change if we actually assess democrat running politicians and elect those who actually#Enact progressive policies and don't suck conservative cock#(There are further questions to be had about upholding the US' institutions as they currently stand-#But those require much more nuance than tumblr tag commentary can manage)#I don't hate liberals#I'm just exhausted by them
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