Not Anti-America, Anti-Morality

In particular, anti- a specific morality, one that is popular in the Western world. The morality of "goodness" and "compassion" and taking pity on others.

Sade wrote a book in the 18th century that had a similar plot to this movie (perhaps it was an inspiration for this?) and was an even more explicit attack against this morality.

According to Nietzsche, this morality was left behind in the aftermath of Christianity. He considered pity a most grave weakness, a sickness, and a danger. He also pointed out that this morality is a sham, that it was created out of immorality and is really just a more sophisticated form of immorality itself.

Grace's father pointed out the same thing more-or-less when he pointed out that she was more arrogant than he, despite all her feelings of moral superiority.

The way Grace allows everyone to use and abuse her is not too unlike how we in the West, both in Europe and America, are currently allowing foreigners to use and abuse us - giving them free money, even allowing them to get away with abuses, and so on.

I don't see the film as anti-America. It's dealing with a subject that transcends America and relates to the entire Western world.



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