10 subversive, dark American futures to stream on July 4th
Around the 4th of July, American TV stations fill up with patriotic content. That takes a lot of different forms, which this year range from FX’s Captain America movie marathon to TCM classics like 1776 and Elia Kazan’s America, America. Filmmakers have celebrated the United States through fist-pumping escapist action (Independence Day), grim patriotic drama (Red Dawn), sentimental uplift (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), and confrontational personal stories (Born on the Fourth of July), among many other methods. Artists’ freedom to find and express their own version of the country is part of what makes it great.
But it can be just as patriotic to take a more subversive look at America, to examine the flaws in its institutions and...
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