"You know what my problem is with every fanatic fundamentalist, from the Catholics, to the Orthodox, to the KKK? The one thing you all have in common is, and you're too ignorant to see it, is that you're too inept to get by in the world, so your only recourse is to try and curtail the enjoyment of others." Those are some of the first words we hear at the start of Justin Kurzel 's The Order , the best film of 2024. They are spoken by Alan Berg (played by Marc Maron ), a Jewish talk radio host was murdered by members of a white supremacist group (known as The Order) in 1984. It's an arresting piece of voiceover, paired with a haunting God's eye view of a dark winding road in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. In a lot of ways, that winding road imagery was the perfect epilogue to 2024: there was unease, uncertainty and an overall devastation felt from the fascist figures taking power in the U.S. government. I first saw The Order at AFI Fes...
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