After involuntarily* watching Little Miss Sunshine, I thought the problem with "uplifting" movies is they give a false impression of how easily disadvantaged people can band together and overcome their troubles.
But the media are suckers for this stuff. Lovely stories of how the poor, sick and disabled can just get up the gumption and solve the problems created by massive societal barriers and inequality to lighten anyone's heart and remind those still suffering that it's all their own fault.
Can we - and I can't overstate this - fucking not?
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* I was in a psych ward, they'd taken my phone, and it was that or read a Jodi Picoult book. If I wasn't already depressed, I was when I saw the media selection.
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