American Psychos | Aaron Timms Highlight

The demise of Penn’s petty tyrant, even at the hands of a greater evil, offers a richly satisfying payoff, but it’s also a fantasy: in America today the bad guys are more likely to be rewarded than incinerated. The assholes keep assholing. All of political culture now is just a series of dunks and owns, and increasingly the pwnage is turning deadly. There’s no going back to Obamaworld, to the dusty old song book of aspirational rhetoric and rule by flattery. The future of politics is not reconciliation but revenge, not revolution but distraction, not a more perfect union but a slow motion collapse. The only way America might come together now is through gooning; perhaps that’s already the future of film.