Everything’s political nowadays. The beer you drink, the food you eat, the mask you wear (or not), along with realistically the movies you see. Some would say that due to Hollywood’s near monolithic Lefty-ness, just seeing a film is a political statement. Such a view is an overstatement.
While some filmmakers beat us over the head with political imagery, not all of them do. Some entertainers recognize (paraphrasing Michael Jordan) that Republicans buy movie tickets too. One perhaps surprising example here would be George Clooney with his latest. Though the actor, director and producer has never kept his politics quiet, he happily kept them out of the new film he directed, The Tender Bar.
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