Pay attention to the procedure. A girl who works as a striptease dancer gives up her job to bake hamburgers in a run-down restaurant. She’d rather stink of charred flesh than show off, an expression of dignity her abusive boyfriend doesn’t understand. To defend herself against the man’s blows, she hits him with frying pans and runs away without anyone to help her as he chases her. They simply give him shelter in a Marine recruiting office. The perpetrator, harassed by a brave soldier/prince protecting the maiden, retreats. Seeing that the girl is experiencing arrests and physical resistance beyond the norm (we have already seen the frying pans that she distributes), they recruit her into the army, where she finds a raison d’être and sends her to the Middle East as Spy to carry out suicide missions like a Ramba to save the free world.
This Delirium, which seems like a parody of The Simpsons on a series for Trumpists with screwed caps and countless moments of embarrassment, is the latest series from Taylor Sheridan, considered a stylish author since Comanchería and especially Yellowstone. which I enjoyed with pleasure and without guilt. The current arena is titled “Special Ops: Lioness,” and it shows that the line between cowboy nostalgia and fascist militarism is much thinner than some of us believed. Like the drug warnings that we kids of the ’80s took at face value: You start attacking a horseman on a ranch in Montana, and before you know it you’re bombing Arab countries.
Of course it’s fiction and mostly pointless entertainment, but it’s disturbing to see how little it takes for nostalgia to prevail in vulgar propaganda. No matter how many times we have seen it, it is a phenomenon that never ceases to amaze.
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