I will try to write this piece without spoiling any movies.
2017 was the year of the overpraised unrealistic movie. I'm referring to movies that supposedly used the real world as a setting.
When it's a given that the world in which a movie is set is fictional, obviously I give a pass to it. But there are events in these otherwise real movies that seem completely fucking absurd:
"Baby Driver" featured scenes in which it would have been impossible for Jon Hamm's "Buddy" character to escape with his life. There was also the ridiculous notion of a girlfriend who just met a guy yet is willing to follow him through the gates of hell immediately.
"Get Out" is alright-- until you realize that there are few elderly white in the world who secretly want to be black, let alone a vast hoard of them who are willing to usurp black people's existences in order to achieve it.
"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri" features a painfully moronic scene in which a cop brutally beats two innocent people within plain view of a police chief, yet he is not arrested.
These three films are possibly the most discussed films of 2017, and one of them (Three Billboards) is poised to sweep most of the Oscars soon. I don't really know if this "who cares if it seems real or not?" subtext and people's acceptance of it is a byproduct of the fact that during the last decade superhero and animated films were the most profitable movies. I just know that it's a shitty direction for film making to head toward.
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