Tuesday
Jul232019
The New Classics - In the Loop
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 2:00PM Michael Cusumano here to mark the 10th anniversary of one of the great political satires.
Scene: The Meditation Room
The political operators of Armando Iannucci’s In the Loop live in a world where issues don’t matter and the halls of power are filled with bureaucrats who would gleefully sell out their principles were they not held back by their own incompetence. In this universe, those sad few officials who do manage to take a moral stand are not merely defeated but negated entirely, their feeble protests turned into absurd jokes and swept away in a sea of media noise.
I should add that In the Loop is one of the funniest movies of the 21st Century, but then it would have to be to get away with painting a picture so grim...