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Film mostly covers the issue from the perspective of the protesters, the family chooses not to talk to the press, which is wise in this day and age. So its weird when they try to cast the media of the past as being misogynistic when its motives were no different than they are today, voyeuristic vultures feigning concern.

It annoyed me they had to resort to the gender war narrative, as if she broke the glass ceiling of boy bands as if popular music hadn't been a thing for decades at that point. As if coverage of her was especially bad because she was a woman when just a look at Michael Jackson completely undermines that claim.

It seems Britney has become is another enigma figure embraced by the gays as a symbol of their struggle much like Marilyn Monroe, another tragic figure, another sweet simple girl over whelmed by fame and the loose values held up by those that claimed to cherish them.

The problem is many of the types supporting this have been very trusting of the media, the courts and "experts" in recent times, so what leg do they have to stand on? As stated by the father, they could just be conspiracy theorists.

I'll give you one possibility, bipolar diagnosis keeps the judge from changing their decision, but again, this is based on the assumption that psychology is science, when it is not, and the very same people who would be against in this case were very happy to push their agendas in the ever more fashionable "consensus" based changes to the DSM V. Plenty of questionable credibility to go around, this is from the New York Times after all.

Christopher Nolan is usually one of my favorite film directors, but his films tend to rely on a high concept gimmick, and the characters are secondary, poorly fleshed out, but it doesn't matter if the concept is well done enough of an idea to keep you intrigued. This time "inception" idea is harder to convey than dreams within a dream, so It was mostly confusing most of the time, cause and effect of a reverse time line break all intuitive sense when you have cross interaction between them.

On top of this you have the problem of very bland characters who seem like fill ins, stereotypical cartoon russian villian, a treacherous damsel, straight man simp protagonist, and so you really have no investment in this side winning at all, it would almost be more interesting if they lost, and based on the story, it maybe necessary for them to eventually lose to save humanity. So the film fails in giving you a reason to care, and is more riddle than story.