JASON BOURNE SHOWS HOLLYWOOD’S NAÏVE SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP
For years, Hollywood blockbusters have been transmitting a common theme—a crisis exists (sometimes because of government meddling), and the crisis cannot be solved by bureaucratic Washington; ergo, a hero outside government emerges to solve the problem for the people. Hunger Games, Jason Bourne films, etc. The message is identical with that of the Tea Party—that government is incompetent or the problem, and only a hero outside the establishment can solve the problem. Hitherto the hero was someone mythical, but now we know that all those blockbusters were paving the way for the appearance of an actual person—Donald Trump, who states the subliminal thesis of all the crisis/hero films: “Only I can solve the problems.” In Jason Bourne, directed by Paul Greengrass, the enemy is again the CIA. Bourne (Matt Damon) is prepared to whistleblow about CIA black ops, one of which killed his father. CIA Director Robert Dewey (played by Tommy Lee Jones) wants to kill Bourne before he can do more damage than Snowden. So now Matt Damon, who says that he will only star in films that feature political exposés, personifies Donald Trump, the hero who exposes the crooked political establishment as the embodiment of Satan. MH