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Jesse Plemons red glasses a symbolic reference to the MAGA hat?


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And imo, Children of Men is a much better film, Civil War has its moments but in the end is lazily plucking at low hanging fruit.

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I think that's looking too deep into it.

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I was originally thinking maybe the red glasses were meant to symbolize evil, the way demons and monsters are often given red eyes, but then I started thinking about the political leaning of the film and it got me thinking that maybe it’s Garland taking a jab at Trump.
Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing, but I enjoy searching films for symbolic references, like the X’s in The Departed, or the oranges in The GodFather.

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I think the bizarre choice of eyewear is to underline that this guy is nuts.

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I have a pair of cheap neon blue sunglasses in my car. It like to be a little out there sometimes and I think the red glasses being outside of his normal army uniform made him look like he's nuts.

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