I wanted to like the movie, because I thought the sets, costumes and aesthetics were so cool, but then the story was just bad. I honestly don't know what they were thinking with the gay guy, it was so unnecessary for the plot. Ignoring how he had no reason to think the the younger guy was gay, the sudden overt racism to the hard working innocent black woman made it cartoonish, almost like they realized the audience might think his reaction to an older man touching his inner thigh and essentially propositioning him, from his perspective out of nowhere, was entirely appropriate. Same with the antagonist character trying to sexually assault the protagonist, it was like they realized he was almost entirely justified in all his actions so they had to give him some unsavory traits.
The ridiculously lax security for what would be the find of the century (especially since this is set during the freaking Cold War) was just constantly irritating.
I wanted to like the movie, because I thought the sets, costumes and aesthetics were so cool, but then the story was just bad. I honestly don't know what they were thinking with the gay guy, it was so unnecessary for the plot. Ignoring how he had no reason to think the the younger guy was gay, the sudden overt racism to the hard working innocent black woman made it cartoonish, almost like they realized the audience might think his reaction to an older man touching his inner thigh and essentially propositioning him, from his perspective out of nowhere, was entirely appropriate. Same with the antagonist character trying to sexually assault the protagonist, it was like they realized he was almost entirely justified in all his actions so they had to give him some unsavory traits.
The ridiculously lax security for what would be the find of the century (especially since this is set during the freaking Cold War) was just constantly irritating.