So many films I've seen recently boil down to conflicts between 'authoritarian personality' types and non-authoritarians. It's the same tropes and conflicts over and over again with the ultimate message always being that the authoritarian is dangerous, wicked and will ultimately be overcome by a rag tag bunch of individuals which are usually as 'diverse' as possible.

The good, subversive films I'm always on the lookout for are the ones that actually acknowledge that the big bad authoritarian is right. Some of them even do this unintentionally but that's not as interesting. John Goodman's character in cloverfield is the only reason those two worthless idiots he has underground are alive and John Malkovich in bird box come to mind. John Malkovich protests when they let a demon possessed criminal into the house who eventually gets most of them killed but he's been set up as the authoritarian Trump supporter so of course the rag tag bunch of diverse individuals knocks him out and lock him up. Yet not for one second is this reflected on. No one questions what they've done, why they made that mistake or feels guilty for imprisoning a man who justifiably tried to warn them of the danger of letting strangers into your house. It's just never discussed again. Bullock runs off with her Black boyfriend and adopted children to the country.

I actually really like that film just because it's such ham-handed propaganda that it's constantly contradicting itself and becomes almost 'Ourfilm'.