I’ll throw in “All The President’s Men” for best political movie.
Mr smith goes to washington.
Its clearly from 1939, but if you watch it and even mildly pay attention, you will see how very very relevant it still is.
Although politics is in everything, I’m gonna give a shot for best apolitical movie:
Kill Bill.
Not because it’s void of any political messages, but because it’s a straight forward revenge story with one man army set pieces.
It doesn’t try to say that much about society, its focus is about the relationships of a few people. Everyone can agree betrayal is a bad thing and the movie doesn’t really try to justify revenge, but just to show it in an outlandishly cool way.
Political - La Haine
For me:
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Political - Spotlight, but 12 Angry Men is also excellent
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Apolitical (like that exists) - Inception, I guess? The Lord Of The Rings trilogy?
Given your parenthetical, I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’m gonna dispute that the series of novels about the fractured and imperfect nations of “the West” uniting against an alliance of barbaric monsters and uncivilized men in “the East” is apolitical at all.
Not to mention it’s a text which presupposes the divine mandate of kings, which is an explicitly political stance.
Which is not to say any of this is bad, necessarily, though I do think it would be a fun exercise in fan fiction to rewrite Aragorn’s arc. Instead of it culminating with him accepting his “birthright” and becoming king, he winds up fucking off back to the woods with his hot elf-wife and telling Gondor to sort their own shit out.
Oh yeah, that’s all there, and more; don’t even get me started on The Silmarillion.
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- The Ides of March, Clooney, 2011
- The Manchurian Candidate, Frankenheimer, 1962
The original Manchurian Candidate was a brilliant film.
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