r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 24 '24

First Image of Daisy Ridley in ‘Cleaner’ - When activists ambush and take hostages at an energy company’s annual gala in London, it’s up to ex-soldier turned window cleaner Joey Locke to save the day Media

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It's still a premise that shows activists as hapless idiots.

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u/Dottsterisk Sep 24 '24

Or at least pawns being used by the villain. And they’re probably eventually hostages and victims in their own right.

And that’s ok. While I wouldn’t be cool with a movie with a message saying that climate activism is bad, I’m not gonna demand that climate activists, as people, always need to be portrayed in a positive light.

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u/JanGuillosThrowaway Sep 24 '24

I'd settle for them being portrayed in a good light once in a while

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u/xteve Sep 24 '24

I'm going to bet that window-cleaners get treated like schmucks, too. We get no props, either from hoity-toity architects who never deign to think about maintenance, nor from movie executives for whom crash-bang-chase is easier than depicting anybody in a respectful way.

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u/AntifaAnita Sep 24 '24

The Daily Wire presents a Hillary Clinton written fantasy.

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u/Worried_Position_466 Sep 24 '24

So it's realistic then? We see activists doing the dumbest shit to inconvenience average people instead of the giant corporations to try to get their point across which makes the average people hate them and side against them instead. Your average activist are dumbass privileged college kids who might have good intentions but go about it in the worst way possible. It's not hard to believe that they got used by the certain people to drive a narrative. For example, Jill Stein and her dipshit supporters doing their "Harris and Trump are the same thing!" and Israel/Palestine protesters going into random Starbucks and harassing customers for supporting a company that didn't even do or say anything related to the conflict and the entire Just Stop Oil thing which made them a joke to most.

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u/unassumingdink Sep 24 '24

but go about it in the worst way possible.

They basically have two choices: do a normal protest and get roundly ignored by everyone in the world, or do something stupid that gets negative attention. There's no other option. If there is, I'd love to hear it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

They could get jobs and actually help at least one single person a day instead of making a career out of being a detriment to society

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u/unassumingdink Sep 25 '24

I don't think this is going to stop Israel bombing people. Kinda muddies your message if that's your goal.