Austin Film Festival 2019 Day 8: Fuck the Man

Michael Dixon
Nov 1 · 4 min read

I just saw two films about massive bureaucracies screwing over the little guy, and I am fucking pissed. I watched them back to back in the same seat at the same theater, and both inspired viscerally irate reactions that I was not expecting from Oscar bait studio films. On the surface, movies about auto racing and civil rights would seem to have very little in common. However, they both take the perspective of…

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Michael Dixon

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professional accountant, unprofessional movie watcher

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