Wow, this is fabulous, Sovay. The way you tell it, your own views on society and its ills, and your elucidation on the film's successes and failures doing the same.

Thank you. There was a lot to think about in this one.

I remember that message in The Lathe of Heaven, where the only way the hero's unconscious could contemplate peace on earth was through a war with aliens.

Yes! I think that was my first encounter with the idea.

In the dream I'll be thinking, "I just know there's someone else who's supposed to be here, but I can't think who...." Ignoring America's anti-Black racism feels like that.

Those sound like chilling dreams. And that's a very good comparison: something essential, so huge that you shouldn't be able to miss it, just gone.

And the remark that next we'll be bigots against certain types of necktie. NO. STOP.

It's one of the most well-intentioned, hideously off-target uses of that particular strawman I've ever seen.

--this line made me laugh. I don't want to see the film, but your description of this one person, well--if I could watch just for this small thread, I would.

If I find his scenes excerpted, I'll link them to you!