Metaphor: ReFantazio
Full spoilers ahead 2010: The Social Network comes to theaters. Great movie, incisive, foreboding. Occasionally met with the criticism that Mark Zuckerberg can’t really be that bad, can he? This must be a hyper-dramatized version of the story for film that needs Zuck to bring about his own tragic downfall. 2013: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance releases, featuring a climactic sword fight with a roided-out American super senator. This is seen as over the top, camp, an observation of American politics from a famously idiosyncratic outsider auteur. 2013, later: The Purge releases. Reasonably successful, but surely way too heavy handed to take seriously. The Romney-like Young Republican bad guy puts on a mask and does snarling monologues about how much he loves killing poor people? Come on. Here in 2025, these and more have gotten their due as ahead ...