MINDHUNTER
History. Pattern. Profile.
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
Wokeness: 30%
Overall Score: 90%
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FourEyedRaven
Fantastic Show
David Fincher, is the director of Zodiac, Fight Club, Gone Girl, and many other great films.
He hit it out of the park with this show as well. Shame it isn’t yet renewed for a third season.
Created: 11-10-2022
JustEntertainment
Fincher x modern woke.
Though being set in the 70’s, the worldview in which the characters exist is very woke. The viewer will have to wade through the swampy world in order to find the rhythm of the story. But once it gets there, arguably, it’s entertaining.
The protagonist is meant to be a 2020's-style modern, progressive feminist male in an 70's environment inhabited with racist, emotional men. He has an emasculating, vulgar girlfriend, establishing him as a beta masochist who’s into manly dominatrix types. Character-wise, it’s telling. There’s even a scene of him ironing his own shirts in front of her while she looks on with distain.
All women characters make disparaging “men are weak” comments. All women are masculine, overbearing and have lines saying verbatim, “I’m tough.” There is no normal or in-between with the female characters. This flat, cookie-cutter character might be the director’s aim, depicting how emasculation didn’t necessarily have the serial-killer result on the effeminate protagonist that it did on the serial killers in question.
And yes, identity politics. Gay, gay, gay. "Representation matters." The manly teacher character is a lesbian. If you’re into that stuff, there is lots of sex of all types, often depraved.
There are hints in the beta protagonist’s lectures like “we shouldn’t incarcerate criminals,” and any cops which think criminals should atone for their crimes are portrayed as stubborn, emotional morons. It’s disingenuous, too, because while the protagonist argues that nothing is black and white, the director only makes black and white types in his own movie.
The story is interesting, and Fincher is always twisted enough to make great stuff, but he hit pretty much every woke branch on the way down the Hollywierd tree with this one. At the moment the only woke stuff this drama lacks is pedophilia and political jabs, but I don’t know if I can get get far enough into the series to find out if he ticks those boxes, too.
Created: 11-10-2022
