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Film: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Poor Cameron's dad. Guy has to deal with a hypochondriac son with depression, probably a wife with similar condition for the past 17 years. He has one peaceful outlet - restoring a Ferrari. Guy works hard to provide for his family and needs this one little thing to take his mind off things and what does his dipshit, ungrateful son do? Destroy it while ditching school and then thinks he's a hero for it.

Other revisionist takes 

--Ben Stein teaching how tariffs don't work in econ class and no one is paying attention. Cut to 2025 when all those dumb yuppie kids are now the MAGA braintrust or the MMT economists

--Rooney is a good dean of students and should have his contract renewed. He does need to stop Ferris Bueller otherwise there will be trickle down effect of truancy across the school.

--Is Sloan British? Why does she have such hairy arms? I guess this isn't a take, but at moments she dips into a British accent. Ferris has a British flag in his room. Or is this just how hot girls in Chicago spoke in the mid-80s

--Is the depiction of the parking attendants racist or not? The only black and hispanic guys in the film do blue collar work and steal the Ferrari, so on the surface they are criminals not to be trusted. But they are also the only people in the film to outfox Ferris Bueller. So are they the true geniuses? The platonic ideal of the film's ethics?

--The film is very patriotic in a way. Bueller tells us he doesn't believe in -isms, he believes in himself. He totally dismisses European socialism by saying: I'm not European. Interesting framing, if you think about it. What does it mean to be "not European". It means he's American. Also consider the Twist and Shout parade sequence. What is going on in this parade? There seems to be some type of German-esque celebration, but the predominant image is that of the American flag. The film is a pure celebration of what some people call "American exceptionalism" embodied by Ferris Bueller himself.