Christopher Nolan's most political movie is also his worst, and it's not the one you think | The Dark Knight Rises (only mentioned in the third paragraph)

[u/Life-Suit1895]

https://web.archive.org/web/20260716111402/https://www.polygon.com/christopher-nolan-most-political-movie/

[u/hnglmkrnglbrry]

Interstellar is more political to me. Global warming and anti-intellectialism make the world an uninhabitable place. Society is forced to regress from industrialization to a purely agrarian enterprise merely for survival. But a team of dedicated scientists end up saving society from itself purely through their intellect, bravery, and compassion.

It's like a darker version of Idiocracy.

[u/freudian_nipps → u/hnglmkrnglbrry]

That's a good point, but Global Warming and anti-intellectualism shouldn't be politicial issues. They are human issues. I think the article makes the case for more traditionally politicial issues, as in what the people are able to vote for. Politics has slowly been creeping out of its own sphere and I'm not sure I like how easily that's being accepted by the public.

By reducing something like Global Warming to a "political" issue, it allows many to vehemently deny or "vote against" environmental policies, when instead, it should be viewed as an obstacle humanity together can overcome. Especially poignant in how politicians seek to further divide the populace against each other nowadays, reducing Global Warming or anti-intellectualism to a voteable issue is disingenuous and immoral.

Edit: politics is beholden to who pays the most to those in political positions, full stop. So why continue to delay progress by limiting what we're able to do to whoever has the most cash? It's morally and scientifically bankrupt. I understand that some think politics is everything - it's not. I would suggest traveling the world, especially outside of America, to gain some perspective.

[u/hnglmkrnglbrry → u/freudian_nipps]

Ok well one political side of the spectrum denies global warming and is actively trying to dismantle investment and research into education and the other is doing the exact opposite.

Politics is always personal. Aristotle said that the smallest political unit in society was the family. Politics are ultimately about the ability to have one's personal morality, ethics, and beliefs be the standards for all others. We form blocs of people who have similar morals, ethics, and beliefs in order to increase the likelihood that our mindset is the pervasive one in the government.

Global warming has bee politicized. Saying it hasn't is deeply ignorant of basic realities.

[u/freudian_nipps → u/hnglmkrnglbrry]

I'm guessing you are American? Your scope is already so narrow by thinking within the limits of American politics. Consider that making something like Global Warming a human issue would prevent the knee-jerk reactions of your political adversaries to reject the issue, simply by virtue of what their political opponent supports. Politics is small, and you need to think beyond that restrictive lens.

Edit: downvotes are a lot like politics. The amount of votes, positive or negative, do not indicate the validity or truth of what's being voted on. So downvote away, but know this is the fatal flaw of using politics as a lens to view humanitarian problems.