Doraemon’s Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Added 2023-08-18 04:51:19 +0000 UTCFamily movie day with the Schmudlachs in Tokyo usually results in a special episode of the Kingless Generation, as I dissect the petit bourgeois propaganda to which I’ve been subjected in an (arguably) more constructive forum than ranting to my kids—but this latest Doraemon film outdid even last year’s Ukraine War puff piece, and I had to call on Prez of the Minyan to help me recover some sanity points. This time we have a tale of utopian hopes betrayed, dramatizing point for point the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: there are definitely hints in the direction of Jewish identity for certain bad guys, and explicit “early-20th-century German” atmospherics for the good guys for some reason, but more than anything the true main point of the Protocols—that anyone who tries to get you to strive for a better world, to struggle against the ruling class, is only plotting to brainwash and enslave you and become an even more dangerous ruling class—is the central and bombastically delivered message of this film.
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Pretty much! She hasn’t had to say that I don’t think, but she did have to stop me from standing up and walking out during this movie when the big nosed villain behind the curtain appeared
Fergal Schmudlach
2023-08-18 13:20:25 +0000 UTCCan't stop imagining your wife telling you to spare the children of your readings of Anpanman
The Return Of The Repressed
2023-08-18 12:48:20 +0000 UTC
