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I know the movie wish was made by communists, but the funny part is that in a big way the main plot is a repudiation of state communism.. essentially, a bunch of people come to the communist utopia, realize that the commissar is going to be the one making decisions about whose dreams get to come true and whose don't, and so the main characters stage a liberal revolution so that people can work towards their self-interest as individuals instead of just relying on the benevolent state to do it for them.

One of the core struggles in the plot is the battle between the common man and the technocrat, with the technocrat portrayed as arrogant and dismissive of the needs of the common man. Given what postmodern Neal marxists want to shape the world into, again that looks like a repudiation of their values rather than an affirmation of them. Tossing a brown girl into the hero role and a white dude into the villain role doesn't really change anything there.

As hokey as it sounds, I feel like this movie could be used as an allegory for how the left dealt with the lockdowns. This paternalistic technocrat sings beautifully about protecting people's dreams, but it's more than happy to crush those dreams the moment that their power is threatened. In the end, said government technocrat ends up drawing upon forbidden power, and sells their soul because it turns out it never had anything to do with protecting dreams.