Atomic Blonde and Modern Politics
Dec. 5th, 2021 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineAs I type this, Atomic Blonde is replaying on Showcase Canada. I've seen it twice at the cinemas, as noted here and here, back in 2017.
Seeing the early scenes of it again before I turned off the TV - I have the DVD, so re-watching isn't currently a problem for me - kickstarted a bit of resentment in my brain. Remember, the movie is set in 1989 in Berlin. Right at the end of the Soviet-American Cold War that was.
When I think about the opportunities given us by the end of that Cold War, and how so much of that was thrown away for reasons ranging from accidental short-sightedness to straight-up malice to - possibly, in rare instances? - noble intentions, and how those choices set up the human race for the nightmares now underway across the planet, I want to scream in rage and grief yet again for what was thrown away.
Seeing the early scenes of it again before I turned off the TV - I have the DVD, so re-watching isn't currently a problem for me - kickstarted a bit of resentment in my brain. Remember, the movie is set in 1989 in Berlin. Right at the end of the Soviet-American Cold War that was.
When I think about the opportunities given us by the end of that Cold War, and how so much of that was thrown away for reasons ranging from accidental short-sightedness to straight-up malice to - possibly, in rare instances? - noble intentions, and how those choices set up the human race for the nightmares now underway across the planet, I want to scream in rage and grief yet again for what was thrown away.
