Emily the Criminal (2022) is a recent movie that is definitive of America.
The movie illustrates what Democrats fail to understand in 2024 and 2016: wages haven’t kept up with inflation since the Reagan Administration, the workplace has become entirely dehumanizing, scams are more plentiful than clean air, typical housing isn’t exactly “magazine-worthy”, and students are graduating $60K+ in debt.
De Niro, Pacino… …Plaza!
Aubrey Plaza plays the lead in a role reminiscent of De Niro in Taxi Driver or Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. That a woman is playing a role that was the exclusive domain of men 50 years ago shows that America is still improving in some ways.
Emily is too strong a human being to take it lying down. She loves freedom too much, and she is too American to stand for the dehumanizing men and women who interview her for jobs, and as a result, there are at least two brilliant “Take This Job and Shove It” scenes that will have you in her corner, trembling with empathy.
Don’t believe me? President Obama called Emily the Criminal one of his favourite movies of 2022.
* This is a response to the NY Times article Readers Pick the Definitive Films That Capture America. It is also a shorter version of my previous post, Emily the Criminal: A Definitive Film that Captures America*.
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