Is there really such a thing as privacy anymore? This question is one of many asked by Sam Levinson in his second feature, Assassination Nation. But neither Levinson nor the film’s characters let you come out of the theater with an easy answer—that would miss the point entirely. Instead, Assassination Nation serves as a dizzying, aggressive, and controversial commentary on how desensitized we’ve become to violence in a world that won’t stop buzzing.
In Assassination Nation, that reaction manifests in violence.
But male fear never stops there. When men are threatened, or feel that their power might be compromised, why wouldn’t they assert their dominance in violent ways? They’ll try to take back what’s theirs from these psycho bitches using any means necessary. If they die, they deserve it, right? After all, they’re sluts. They’re young. They’re women. They had it coming.
