{"id":25939,"date":"2020-02-27T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25939"},"modified":"2020-02-27T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T19:18:13","slug":"knives-out-movie-migrants-are-better-than-native-born-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/27\/knives-out-movie-migrants-are-better-than-native-born-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Knives Out movie: Migrants are better than Native-born Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When at Universal Orlando&#8230; see a movie! My Irish friend and I saw <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2u7ifNe\">Knives Out<\/a><\/em>, in which Daniel Craig speaks in a Southern accent that no Southerner since the 19th century (or ever?) has used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the anachronistic accent, this is perhaps the most modern Hollywood film. It concerns an extended multi-generational family of native-born Americans. They are mendacious and lazy. One even might be a Trump supporter and Wall advocate! All seek to live off the money earned by the patriarch. Their fertility is low, with a one-child maximum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other side of the scale is a hard-working migrant from Latin America. Her mother is undocumented, but somehow she and a sister are citizens. So that the mom can be a completely heroic &#8220;single mom,&#8221; no father is mentioned nor appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a mystery so I don&#8217;t want to spoil the rest!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth seeing just to see how thick Hollywood is willing to lay on the &#8220;immigrants are better than natives and the U.S. will be better off once the natives have been replaced&#8221; message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[There is a technical inaccuracy. 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