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Buddha in a Traffic Jam (2016)
Average movie, bad propaganda
Buddha in a traffic jam tracks the journey of the lead character from being a "woke youngster" to realising that liberalism and socialism are just facades for violent communists to hide behind.
The Good:
1. The depiction of the common man's struggle between the Maoists and the authorities is inspired
2. Decent acting by the leads
The Bad:
1. The plot is quite predictable and dull.
2. The characters' motivations are extremely one dimensional to the point of being absurd. Lazy stereotypes are scattered all over- a prime example being the youngsters using swear words, drinking uncontrollably and proud of "being bi***es"
The Ugly:
When making a propaganda film such as this, the logical thing to do would be attack the opposing ideology itself.
Here is where this movie fails not only as a storytelling device, but as good propaganda as well. It does not attack socialism, but employs the ad hominem and strawman fallacies: It does not attack what's said by the socialists, but instead claim that they are just lying and have eviler intentions. Basically, it's "your argument is invalid because I think that your actual views are something else"
I don't see this movie as enjoyable for anyone other than extremely naïve or extremely biased people looking for a piece to reinforce their beliefs.