there are a couple problems with wanda's moral arc but one big one is that the violence and the reasons for the violence don't link up well metaphorically.
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the irregulars is a good contrast. there are a lot of grieving people in that. and they're willing to do a bunch of horrible things that generally involved taking revenge on those who hurt them *as well as* bringing back loved ones.
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like, in the irregulars, people who are grieving and harmed are angry at those who harmed them and at the world in general. their violence is understandable, but also not accidental, or some sort of blip. they are filled with rage and bitterness.
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whereas Wanda is harming people without knowing it. which is possibly a good metaphor for like, the capitalist and environmental harms of American suburban life, but doesn't connect to her grief in a way that makes much sense.
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I think the idea was to show how people convince themselves that they’re doing good when they’re not. Wanda says she was supposed to be making people happier, but deep down that’s just how she convinces herself that her actions are okay.
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but is she engaged in motivated reasoning? or does she just flat out not know what she's doing?
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I mean this is ancient discourse, about how the suburbs are built on capitalist exploitation and the dream they represent is cruel and hollow and the white picket fence hides alienation and abuse
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I feel like they didn't feel the need to go into it because it's honestly a played out cliché from decades past that they revived with a twist Why Is Westview Bad? is basically the whole theme of stuff like Pleasantville and The Truman Show All the "suburban hell" shit
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Revolutionary Road and The Stepford Wives and Ordinary People and The Ice Storm and What Lies Beneath and "Lost in the Supermarket" by The Clash and that cartoon movie Over the Hedge they put that song on the soundtrack of
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American Beauty and Fight Club and Office Space and shit
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I guess I'll continue this on my own thread
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