Reply #92: I don't understand your first paragraph. [View All]

The XMen is about fascism. The Sound of Music isn't really. No story needs to be anything or needs not to be something. Every story can be anything it wants to be. XMen wants to be a story about fascism. Sound of Music doesn't want to be one. My first post in this thread tried to capture the sense of dissonance I get when I watch the movie. It's a movie that criticizes Nazis while soft-pedalling its criticism to such a degree that it becomes dissonant to, at least, my ear, becuase, to me, a movie like XMen is really thrilling and fun and politically compelling. Incisive left-wing, anti-fascist politics doesn't need to be a part of every movie, however. I hope I made that clear in the rest of my posts.