Someone needs to tell Paul Thomas Anderson "no" a bit more often because this could have been a beautiful Pynchon adaptation à la Inherent Vice but they strayed too far from the source, forgot to cut the first awful 30 minutes, and cast Leo instead of someone who can act.
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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