okay, I know the danger of trying to play the Oppression Olympics, yeah, someone’s always got it worse, and that shouldn’t pit us against each other when we know we’re all the victims of the real enemies… yeah absolutely

BUT It’s still always a little bit disorienting to watch a movie

(either unrealistically written, or just set in a very different time)

that’s trying to show characters in a bad situation, and it’s like… 500 times better than anything you’ve ever experienced

I mean.

Ok, TRON makes some really hard hitting points about corporate greed and corruption

and yet. the guy who’s portrayed as the victim of all this corruption…

…he owns his own business. His own freaking arcade! With his name on it in huge lights! With his apartment right above it!

which is doing great, no hint that he’s hurting for income– or even that he dislikes working there– nah we see him playing games in there like he’s got his absolute damn dream job…

But hey.. he’s the victim, because if his ideas hadn’t been stolen, he could be CEO of a corporation.

Yeah. I mean.

Ok I get it. He could be doing better. He got screwed over.

BUT I’m about as sorry for him as I am for…

…well, for when I see employees in cubicles.

Sure, I know, cubicles are supposed to mean corporate dystopia. Because the alternative is…

well, the alternative is everyone gets their own private office, right? with a roof and real walls and windows and…

…oh, LMAO.

I get that this was the 80s. But from my perspective here in the 2020s, the alternative is open floorplan, zero privacy ever, working at one long counter alongside a dozen other people and….

(HEY LOOK they even captured that! That’s Yori’s job! See? Look at her all zombified at work, THAT’S how to make me realize a character’s got it bad!)

(I love this movie, but…. I will follow my own heart in which characters to sympathize the most with, ok.)