The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) has to be up there. Literally glorifies the stock market and presents a finance bro job as the key to happiness. There's a scene near the start where Will Smith is outside the NYSE looking at all the suits going in and out and narrating how he was inspired by how happy everyone was, and how this inspired him to bootlick his way into some internship, the pursuit of which literally requires him to alienate his friends and family and sleep in subway bathrooms with his five-year-old son. Everyone in the movie is a lazy, unscrupulous asshole, except for the rich people, of course, who are portrayed as generous and open-minded for allowing Will Smith in the door after he kisses their asses the whole movie. All of his struggle with homelessness and poverty etc. is portrayed not as injustice but as the ideal scenario, rewarding the hardest, most dedicated worker with a job. It is literally r/upliftingnews: the movie.
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Idiocracy. The poor are subhumans unlike the rich, but unfortunately the rich are too meek to assert their superiority over the serfs and dies out, leaving the former to destroy civilization with thier inferiority.
It's a literal fascist propaganda and the fact that libs really love that moves tells you a lot.
The whole explanation it had was unmaterialist and eugenicist, etc.
But the way it depicted the particularities of late capitalist vicissitudes was weirdly spot on.
Thats really the thing about fascists, theyve always been able to spot the problems and frame them in reactionary terms, whereas Liberals really cant do either and parade around a lot of cultural bullshit.