Satire In Bob Goldthwait's God Bless America

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God Bless America Bob Goldthwait’s God Bless America is the story of Frank, a middle aged man with no family and a recently discovered brain tumor. He plans to commit suicide, but after watching some “quality” TV, he decides to first off the life of Chloe, a 16 year old from California well known for throwing a fit over getting an Escalade instead of a Mercedes on National Television. After he does, he meets Roxy: a student at Chloe’s school who hates what society’s become even more than Frank. She convinces him that there’s still so much work to do and many more people that deserve to be killed. They team up, and go on a transcontinental rampage purging the country of the lives that lower society. And it’s a comedy. It’s a beautifully written, thought provoking, satirical comedy that asks you one question, “Why do you…show more content…
It follows the story of the most average man the American government could find; for an experiment, they freeze him, and he wakes up 500 years later. What’s interesting is that although in our time he has average intelligence, in the future the human race has degraded so much that the is the pinnacle of intellectual superiority. Idiocracy plays off the idea that pop culture is going to diminish the intelligence and civilized nature of humanity, and God Bless America plays off the idea that it already has. God Bless America covers a lot of today’s most despicable pop culture icons, and fulfills at least one fantasy of yours, regardless of what it is. This film kills off Simon Cowell, Bill O’Riley, Westboro Baptist Church, and snobby T.V. teenage celebrities. The choice to create such accurate resemblances of the characters they were portraying was both genius and a little reckless. It pulls the audience into the story perfectly, but for people who don’t understand the film, it could potentially endanger the

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