Megalopolis
The good thing about Coppola is that he is insane enough to do anything for the film he wants to make. The bad thing about Coppola is that he is insane enough to do anything for the film he wants to make. I expected weirdness with some kind of entertaining value, given the type of reception that the film was getting as incoherent or incompetent. What I didn't expect was Coppola pontificating what at best seems like nonsense, and at worst seems reprehensible. It is clear that this is the same Coppola that nowadays believes that films like "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" are a victory for cinema, the resistance. One that argues in his film about how demagogues are going to lead to the suppression of art by manipulating easily swayable masses through populism - a perspective that seems reasonable at first but easily shows itself to be cynical and incredibly pessimistic - yet whose response is more demagogy to sell the population a utopia that almost seems made by an art...