What are the good films to watch this week? And why?
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What Film Are You Watching?
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Posted 12 November 2009 - 05:12 AM
I have watched Hot Fuzz on DVD this week: it was really funny. Really. It is an entertaining comedy, a spoof of the classical cop action movies. And it is worth seeing.
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My broken mind has noticed some libertarian stances in it, too. And two guys from The Distributed Republic (warning: spoilers ahead) think like me:
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My broken mind has noticed some libertarian stances in it, too. And two guys from The Distributed Republic (warning: spoilers ahead) think like me:
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I think that there’s a case to be made for Hot Fuzz as Animal Farm for the 21st century.
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It’s an Orwellian warning against collectivism… only coupled with a rather charming faith in the power of heroic American individualism. Except with a British accent.
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It's a movie about deontology versus utilitarianism, about the individual versus the collective, it deserves to join the list of the "libertarian minded" movies.
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All in all, this movie is definitely not a movie about libertarianism, but it certainly has a libertarian flavor. Watching a sect obsessed with "the common good" being defeated by an individualistic deontologist is a pleasure I warmly recommend.
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It’s an Orwellian warning against collectivism… only coupled with a rather charming faith in the power of heroic American individualism. Except with a British accent.
[...]
It's a movie about deontology versus utilitarianism, about the individual versus the collective, it deserves to join the list of the "libertarian minded" movies.
[...]
All in all, this movie is definitely not a movie about libertarianism, but it certainly has a libertarian flavor. Watching a sect obsessed with "the common good" being defeated by an individualistic deontologist is a pleasure I warmly recommend.
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