I have only half-finished it yet but I need to rant.
movie spoilers
Aliens have landed at 12 locations on Earth. One of them being the USA. American military is working with a pair of scientists–a linguist and a physicist–to figure out their language.
Meanwhile the American public is terrified of these aliens who have done nothing but landed and attempted to communicate. They are mad that the American military has not tried to blow them to smithereens. The baddies–China and Russia–are mounting a military operation against the aliens.
I cannot even…
My dad and I watched interstellar at the theater when it came out. Halfway through it the characters arrive at some icy base. The icy base is marked by a large American flag. My dad leaned into to say that westerners can’t help themselves from planting the American flag and be very exceptionalist.
With any media under the american hegemon its one way or the other going to peddling what the empire deems fit.