I've seen it twice in the last few days, both times with people who had not had a chance to watch it yet. Both of them turned and asked if we had anything of a modern equivalent, something that took current political stakes and discussed them not only logically and with a sense of timeliness but with humor, with a sense of fun that helps with the delivery. I struggled to think of any and realized that there are none, nothing in the last couple of decades.

I realize the film is unique and that nothing else came along completely like it but it seems to me that we live in a prime era for that kind of thing. We get films like The Hurt Locker that focus on the violence and damage the current situation caused but nothing that was able to delivery it without that punch, that sense of sorrow.

Just an observation, but I feel like we've lost something. I feel like opportunities have been missed to say something in not only a palatable way, but in a way that reaches through to everyone without beating them over the head.