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?

  • eightpix@lemmy.world
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    3 months 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