Idiocracy The history of American cinema is a countdown of Soviet cinema. If in the USSR the period of glasnost was the end of the state, in the United States some freedom of speech preceded the era of tightening the screws. Many filmmakers of the last quarter of the twentieth century warned the viewer about the impending threat posed by the state.
Hello, girls.
- Come on, you rapist, get out with your phallus!
Tommy is still in the last grade, and therefore travels to universities, probing the soil. The place he went to today is PPU, a collective image of an average American university. Study, which is characteristic, very few people care. This is not a temple of knowledge, but a model of the state. The institution is ruled by a slacker who is more concerned about the political incorrectness of the PPU mascot than the regular riots on campus. She sympathizes with leftist student organizations: feminists, animal rights activists and black racists.
And the walls are white, and chalk is white, and even xeroxes are white. This is a white conspiracy, another white lie!
These organizations, by the way, have signs of militarized political gangs: they promote a radical ideology, walk in tight groups, and are ready to use physical violence in case of a near-conflict situation. However, the rector of the university not only does not prohibit the activities of extremists, but also uses them as a tool to combat undesirable students. This is the hope and pillar of New America.
Also, the creators got the right move, because the creators clearly adhere to the concept of balance in this confrontation. But as much as they tried to denigrate the so-called "snobs" on the same level as the leftists... something didn't work out. Against the background of barbarians, conservatives look like missionaries: neat, polite, disciplined. Separately, their leader – Randy. David Spade is great, his charisma eclipses the leaders of other groups. And although in this film he is an antagonist nominal, but not factual, it is his role that gives me the right to put him on a par with such movie villains as Danny Trejo, Bolo Young, Richard Norton and Shin Fui On.
Nice movie. Yes, already tolerant, but not yet politically correct. Dynamic, original, filled with bright characters. Perhaps the best youth comedy of the 90s. Which clearly does not pull on the PG-13, just before the MPAA was more loyal, and by modern standards it is a classic R.
7 out of 10