In fact they seem to have minimal effect on the film.

If the personal is political, which it is, then theres no such thing as an apolitical film.

Politics come part and parcel with every creative work, with anything that one might make or consume.

Lisa, played by actor Rachel McAdams, sits in the window seat of an airplane with her hand on the glass, as Jackson, played by actor Cillian Murphy, looks menacingly from behind her.

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So, did Craven, Murphy, and McAdams pull it off?

Meanwhile, the JFK assassination andWatergate scandalcompounded the effect by contributing to an atmosphere of anti-government conspiracy.

The inquiry would hardly have occurred to her before the events of 9/11.

Blended image showing characters from How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Oppenheimer, and Reality

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“Theory will take you only so far.”

Craven gifts the audience with one short scene of Keefe speaking to the media.

Rippners misogyny seeps out of him like the grease flattening his floppy middle parting.

Jack Rippner (Cillian Murphy) holds Lisa’s (Rachel McAdams) face while she looks terrified in Red Eye

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Two years prior,Lisa survived a sexual assault that left her with a deep star across her chest.

This makes her survival instincts and ability to move past personal trauma even more inspiring as a result.

It’s not that Craven is saying anything novel with his treatment of misogyny inRed Eye.

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Does that render the film apolitical?

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