This year, with Trumpβs second term in power, has truly been the year of the unravelling of the American dream. The U.S. has been causing havoc in the world with its international policy for decades but this year it has gone one further and started hunting people down on U.S. soil, with what is practically a militia group which has the fancy name of ICE.
As America is a nation that has been selling its lifestyle as something to aspire to to all corners of the world through cinema, one is tempted to look at contemporary American films to understand why and how the system is disintegrating. A number of films have recently been talked about as being "state of the nation" stories β among them "Eddington" and "One Battle After Another" being the most popular.
A scene from the "Eddington" trailer.
"Eddington" was released in May 2025, and many critics looked to it to tell us about what exactly America was suffering from.
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