Escape Artist opens like a sloppy seminar presentation for anxiety-riddled young adulthood infected with naive ideas that 'evil corporations' have stacked the deck against them and the biggest answers can only be found within. While at times the narrative appears to want to reach some genuinely elevated conclusions and falls to a mediocre fail, this movie, at others seems to really be nothing more than a narcissistic promotional piece for James Garrett's borrowed riffs & mediocre music.
The writing is devoid of any true depth of awareness of genuine human experience and is reflected in the total lack of wise context. The acting is boorish, overbearing and amateurish, and at times difficult to tell if the casting or the direction is at fault for some of the films most awkward moments, which are abundant. It reads as if it were an assemblage of comment cards from some 'Democrat Youth for Social Justice' convention - trite, shallow, and unoriginal - certain of all that is bad with no offer of remedy.
The meme that there is some viral element to the lead character, James Patrick's weak intellectual grievances is the only mechanism that the viewer is provided, and simply too bold a demand on the part of James Garrett, to make of the viewer to suspend disbelief.
I didn't. You shouldn't.
...'change', 'move forward', progressivism, collectivism, socialism, move on .org, open society, communism ~ these are all calls for definitive threats to the most foundational elements that makes the US the place of unparalleled potential in the world - which are the individual, freedom and liberty. While the film alludes to enlightenment around this principal as it's concluding soliloquy, the lack of context is the failure in the commitment. This leaves the 'believer' rudderless like a lifeboat in the north Atlantic... or a visitor to the local Krishna Consciousness Center with too many days overdosing on the free meals of pure carbohydrates to know they have stumbled into the abyss of suggestive mind control.
Think for yourself... but learn something of and timeless value that gives this story from Hillsdale College and a study of our Constitution
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