cowboy like morgan

Attempted rape.

Visceral and realistic police brutality.

A meaningful queer relationship.

A none-insignificant amount of blood and violence.

Implied drug abuse.

Imperial characters that were very real people-- and not just British cartoon villians.

Pointed depictions of bureaucratic laziness and incompetence.

Consistent, coherent, well rationed Marxist, socialist, anarchist, and revolutionary theory and philosophy.

A realistic depiction of the practicalities and morally compromising nature of fighting a totalitarian regime. The degree of physical, emotional, and spiritual sacrifice that actually goes into it.

Genocide.

Genocide being called explicitly genocide.

Prison abolitionism.

A fancy white woman forced to sacrifice her daughter for the cause drunkenly dancing her feelings away like the queen she is.

"Make it stop, make it stop."

Weaponized old lady brick being a highlight kickass moment.

Several characters fates being left hauntingly ambiguous.

"Work visa."

When you're dealing with fascists, play dumb. Be slow. Meticulously follow procedure to the letter in the name of 'proper protocol'. Lose files. Get in their way.