![]() ![]() However, the movie that most successfully embodied 2016 was not released in 2016. ![]() The Girl With All the Gifts dared to suggest that those who reacted with panic and fear to change were likely to find themselves consumed by it. Green Room suggested that there was still a primitive savagery lurking just off the main roads, nestled snugly in the heart of the country. The Hateful Eight suggested that perhaps the United States had never reconciled itself following the end of the Civil War and perhaps it never would. Some of the best films of the year helped to capture that sense of anxiety and resentment. It was presented as a strike back against the establishment, against vested interests, an expression of rage – whether racial or economic. ![]() Those public votes were seen as stern rejections of liberalism and progressivism, of an angry and disenfranchised class striking back at what had been seen a disconnected and aloof elite. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump shook the world to its core, and not just because the pollsters somehow failed to predict them. However, the biggest shocks of 2016 were political. ![]()
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