the secret agent!

favorite film from this year's pre-oscars catch-up (though yes, yet another boyfriend rec as well). such a cutting exploration of the ceaseless struggle against fascism and systemic corruption, the ease with which orchestrators of evil frequently erase any record of their wrongdoing, the natural inclination of societies to go along with this historical revisionism for their sanity and safety, and the necessity to resist cultural amnesia no matter the emotional cost - because if we don't, the truth will eventually be no more than another "political opinion."

reminded me of mon mothma's climactic speech in season 2 of andor (one of my all-time favorite shows), and this line specifically: "of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. the death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. when truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest." keep screaming, and teach the next generation to do the same.