"is it play-acting, people desperately pretending they have the freedom of their former, more liberal society for…one night only before going back to their saudia arabian-esque lockdown?"
Really not sure why the like. Genuinely extremely racist statement at the end there was necessary??? Like- by your own admittance you've noticed how much faster than usual this country has been spiraling hardcore right
Seems to me the natural conclusion here is that it's a product of the right wing, christofascist society in the US? Y'know the one where the government is disappearing people, kidnapping them off the streets, and putting them in literal concentration camps? Where it's pretty fucking normalized for cops to just kill people and get away with it scott free as long as those people aren't cishet, able bodied, and, most importantly here, white?
The movie, itself, is pretty overtly taking from those christofacist cultural norms at its core, by having the protagonists shun the idea of a casual fling in the first place. The entire premise of the movie is that the central protagonists want to find "Real Love" and aren't like those shallow sex obsessed other singles who just want to fuck. Yes, they do still hook up during the 'One Night' but that's only after they feel as if they've formed a 'deeper connection' in some way than most other couples in the trailer are shown doing.
Control over who gets to have sex/when/how, and especially, not being allowed to have sex before marriage, is a pretty standard proponent of white american christianity- which has been trying, desperately, to get a chokehold on the government, which is where we get the pro-life movement, the majority of pushback for queer rights, the tradwife movement, "protect the children", "parents rights", idolization of the white heterosexual nuclear family, opposition to no-fault divorce/divorce in general, and just so so so much misogyny and racism. But control over other people's bodily autonomy, especially when it comes to premarital/extramarital sex & procreation is one of the biggest facets of christofacism.
Please check yourself before you post(or reblog!) shit, what sounds like a casual/harmless/funny comment to you, might actually just be some unexamined racism. There's no need to make derogatory comments about other countries(especially not in the Global South/Asia) when there's a perfectly reasonable, rather glaring, explanation, within our own society. The call is coming from inside the house, so to speak. Americans are making the movie, yes? Perhaps US sociocultural norms should be looked to first as an explanation for... Why It's Like That.
