This is my third time watching this Spielberg classic and unlike the last two times, I found it very unsettling (there are a lot of surprising anti-family choices the characters make, and anti-human gestures the aliens make), which I guess goes to show that a great piece of media rewards multiple viewings.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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