The Runner
In the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
Director:
Austin StarkWriter:
Austin StarkStars:
Nicolas Cage, Connie Nielsen, Sarah PaulsonStoryline
In the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
The Runner movie Reviews
I'm going to assume that everyone reading this has seen the movie.
Although it is highly politically incorrect, this movie has to be looked through the eyes of a wealthy, racist white man. Before you become offended, I'm only offering a perspective that may be politically incorrect, but one that makes sense to me. I know, I know... It's offending to many people. But this movie is pornography to the powerful, lusting oligarchy, and it should be seen as such.
I'm now writing with that perspective in mind, so again, don't judge...
Women (IN THIS MOVIE), who are ruthless and don't actually believe in love, are nothing but parasites looking to capitalize on a winning pony in this movie. The wife, who is about as psychopathic as anyone I can imagine, ignores the decent and moral thing to do when she's in the negotiation room with the politician. She's agreeable to anything that will manipulate the general public for person gain. She also becomes reluctant about signing the divorce papers, later on in the movie, because she cannot decide whether the politician still has a future in politics or not. She isn't a principled person like her husband is. She is entirely driven by her own selfish goals of accomplishment through her husband; If he looks like he's failing, she tries to divorce him. If he's making a come-back, she'll reconsider. The girlfriend, who is married, has an affair with him. But the moment he shows signs of weakness in his campaigning efforts, she decides to accept back her husband, thus leaving him, and his silly principle for love and social justice, out of the loop. This movie is basically saying that women are worst than men, and whatever they do is motivated by how successful their pony looks in that race. Black people are always bad luck in this movie. The doctor who tells the politician that his father died is black. He almost has sex with a black women, but decides against it because she herself doesn't have power. He tries to represent the powerless of the Louisianian community, but it's fruitless because they have no power. Black people, in this movie, are regarded as powerless. Thus mingling with them when a person focused on attaining more power is pointless. The movie is suggesting that interaction with black people can only engender hardship, poverty, misery, and failure.
He later submits to alcohol, a sign of, well, submission and resignation. Here comes more rhetoric: If you're like me, you believe that sexuality is about power. The man is condemned by the populace for having sex with a fisherman's wife, (which by the way is used as a negative by a corporate businessman due to class warfare), but the populace doesn't actually hold a grudge against him for it. Instead what we notice is that it was probably a political ploy to make him lose the political campaign for expressing his "power" onto a powerless (and power-lusting) fisherman's wife.
The whole movie is basically a pornography for the affluent to see powerless people struggle with their petty problems, and a stab at their inability to see that the world is rather heartless, and that everyone is selfishly amoral and looking to survive in this world whichever way they can. Poor women rely on their looks to influence men to do their bidding. Rich people manipulate seemingly principled people to influence other principled people to lay off their business. Basically, this movie is saying that morality is for suckers.
At the end of the movie, out of desperation, he rams his car into his old home. Instead of his wife being outraged, she accepts him back because she still sees potential in him as a successful, manipulating politician.
This movie has many similarities to "The Great Gatsby" in that the powerful always win...
Please don't judge me for what I wrote. I voted highly because of the covert and rather creative way for the affluent to write their pornography. I just tell it how I think the movie producers actually wanted to tell the story. Thank you for reading.
Although it is highly politically incorrect, this movie has to be looked through the eyes of a wealthy, racist white man. Before you become offended, I'm only offering a perspective that may be politically incorrect, but one that makes sense to me. I know, I know... It's offending to many people. But this movie is pornography to the powerful, lusting oligarchy, and it should be seen as such.
I'm now writing with that perspective in mind, so again, don't judge...
Women (IN THIS MOVIE), who are ruthless and don't actually believe in love, are nothing but parasites looking to capitalize on a winning pony in this movie. The wife, who is about as psychopathic as anyone I can imagine, ignores the decent and moral thing to do when she's in the negotiation room with the politician. She's agreeable to anything that will manipulate the general public for person gain. She also becomes reluctant about signing the divorce papers, later on in the movie, because she cannot decide whether the politician still has a future in politics or not. She isn't a principled person like her husband is. She is entirely driven by her own selfish goals of accomplishment through her husband; If he looks like he's failing, she tries to divorce him. If he's making a come-back, she'll reconsider. The girlfriend, who is married, has an affair with him. But the moment he shows signs of weakness in his campaigning efforts, she decides to accept back her husband, thus leaving him, and his silly principle for love and social justice, out of the loop. This movie is basically saying that women are worst than men, and whatever they do is motivated by how successful their pony looks in that race. Black people are always bad luck in this movie. The doctor who tells the politician that his father died is black. He almost has sex with a black women, but decides against it because she herself doesn't have power. He tries to represent the powerless of the Louisianian community, but it's fruitless because they have no power. Black people, in this movie, are regarded as powerless. Thus mingling with them when a person focused on attaining more power is pointless. The movie is suggesting that interaction with black people can only engender hardship, poverty, misery, and failure.
He later submits to alcohol, a sign of, well, submission and resignation. Here comes more rhetoric: If you're like me, you believe that sexuality is about power. The man is condemned by the populace for having sex with a fisherman's wife, (which by the way is used as a negative by a corporate businessman due to class warfare), but the populace doesn't actually hold a grudge against him for it. Instead what we notice is that it was probably a political ploy to make him lose the political campaign for expressing his "power" onto a powerless (and power-lusting) fisherman's wife.
The whole movie is basically a pornography for the affluent to see powerless people struggle with their petty problems, and a stab at their inability to see that the world is rather heartless, and that everyone is selfishly amoral and looking to survive in this world whichever way they can. Poor women rely on their looks to influence men to do their bidding. Rich people manipulate seemingly principled people to influence other principled people to lay off their business. Basically, this movie is saying that morality is for suckers.
At the end of the movie, out of desperation, he rams his car into his old home. Instead of his wife being outraged, she accepts him back because she still sees potential in him as a successful, manipulating politician.
This movie has many similarities to "The Great Gatsby" in that the powerful always win...
Please don't judge me for what I wrote. I voted highly because of the covert and rather creative way for the affluent to write their pornography. I just tell it how I think the movie producers actually wanted to tell the story. Thank you for reading.
