It’s Populist.

Hear me out. I say this as a progressive.

This film idealizes small town life. Sonic lives in a small rural town that’s made to be quant and charming. He plays American baseball and goes to cowboy bars.

His cop sidekick wants a job in the big city (San Fransisco of all liberal meccas), he says going there is a step up in his career, but his character has to figure out home is where the heart is, he shouldn’t turn his back on the people of the small community.

The villian is a scientist who yells at the military people about how people are dumb, machines always do as they’re told. He’s presented as the cold tech future where control is given to the machines, and they take our jobs. He’s an elitist, always telling everyone he is smarter than them and knows better. He uses the fact that he uses tech to monitor and spy on the commanders to take charge.

It’s a nightmare scenario for if the progressives take over. There are also undertones of being afraid of science and technology. Like in the 50s when films thought science would create Godzilla or leads Aliens to earth to destroy it or some other hysterics. And Scientists were mad like Dr Strangelove.

There’s a scene where they are chucked through a portal and into a barn where some hay saves them.

They tried to counter their bias hard with an interracial relationship.

I don’t know how else to interpret this film. Anyone else? Bueller…Bueller….

Is this an inversion of the 90s? Where all the films had a liberal agenda, like Contact and Free Willy? Are conservatives taking over the media?