I wonder how medias like movies shows anti consumerism ideias while being made by mostly pro-consumerist people behind the scenes.

For example Fight Club movie has mentions like this:

We buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like.

While very likely, all the production, writer and actors live a life full of luxury and expensive suff, and despite they being aware about this they keep doing it.

How is it possible? Are people just hypocrites or just trying to capitalize on anti consumption mindset? What’s happening here?

  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Not everything is black and white like you think, in fact, nothing ever is. Calling it hypocritical is just blatantly naive.

    If you keep thinking like this, any idea you’re trying to popularize would remain in the fringe of society.

    If all you want to do is remain in the internet’s dark corner while criticizing the mainstream media to no avail, then you’re the hypocrite.

    • CodenameDarlen@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 days ago

      I can’t see any logical argument on your pretentious comment.

      I don’t want to popularize anything I just want to understand.

  • eightpix@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Books/Magazines/Podcasts:

    • No Logo by Naomi Klein

    • Adbusters by Kalle Lasn

    • Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev

    • A New Train of Thought (though somewhat ham-fistedly) by Various Writers

    • Ashes, Ashes by David Torcivia and Daniel Folkner

    • Reset by Roland J. Diebert

    Fitting the description of movie/show:

    • Mr. Robot

    • Utopia (UK version)

    • Killing Them Softly

    • The Big Short, Margin Call

    • Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

    • 3-Iron (Korean film)

    • Parasite (Korean film)

    There are several documentaries and short films

    • The Corporation by Joel Bakan, Harold Crooks, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott

    • Who Killed the Electric Car?

    • The End of Suburbia

    • Man by Steve Cutts (3m47s)

    • Nuggets by Andreas Hykade (5m06s)

    • The Power of Nightmares and HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis

    Also, you might search for films about “corporate malfeasance”.

    • Michael Clayton (top pick)

    • The Insider (top pick)

    • Erin Brockovich

    • Dark Waters

  • gilokee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Chuck Palahniuk thinks these things, not Brad Pitt. It’s called acting. It was a popular book so it was made into a movie, simple as that.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Movies that have anti-consumerism messages are inherently hypocritical. Unless it’s somehow released in such a way that there’s no intent of making money and there’s no merchandising.

    It’s fun to see ironic cases of merchandising that goes against the film’s message. The Hunger Games had make-up lines based on the Capitol look. I haven’t looked it up but I promise you Toy Story 5 has or will have a mobile game based on it even though the point of the film seems to be to encourage playing with physical toys instead of apps.