If it's based on Erskine's formula, you have to take seriously the mind-set and character traits of the subject because it only enhances what is already present at the time you take it.
And the flag smashers may as well be socialists/communists. You can agree with a lot within those ideologies, Sam does, but not creating the world that can be through authoritarianism. I don't pay much attention to news or social media anymore but I'm surprised I haven't heard more dumb shyt about cop-a-ganda or even conservatives saying that Disney is promoting socialism
She'd be more sympathetic if she was a better actress. I mean she's doing her thing, and maybe it could have been written better but her decent into using innocents should have been a bit more gradual.
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