{"id":1841665,"date":"2023-02-10T03:19:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T08:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841665"},"modified":"2023-02-10T03:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T08:20:30","slug":"by-understanding-human-nature-rian-johnsons-poker-face-is-undeniably-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/by-understanding-human-nature-rian-johnsons-poker-face-is-undeniably-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"By Understanding Human Nature, Rian Johnson\u2019s \u2018Poker Face\u2019 Is Undeniably Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fby-understanding-human-nature-rian-johnsons-poker-face-is-undeniably-conservative%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841665&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The latest episode \u201cPoker Face\u201d solidifies it: Rian Johnson\u2019s work as a visual storyteller is fundamentally conservative. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson, an icon among fanboys \u201cThe Last Jedi,\u201d Most famous for its renowned &#8220;The Best of the&#8230;&#8221; \u201cKnives Out\u201d films. The writer-director\u2019s latest project \u2014 a foray into the world of streaming \u2014 fleshes out some of the conservative ideas in Johnson\u2019s work, ideas he probably isn\u2019t even aware rebuke leftist arguments. And it might be the best thing he\u2019s done so far too.<\/p>\n<p> Millennial \u2018Columbo\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoker Face\u201d Peacock&#8217;s new series is about a wandering amateur detective who has an infallible, but unexplained ability to spot lies. The journeyman detective is named Charlie Cale, and she\u2019s wonderfully portrayed by the idiosyncratic Natasha Lyonne, best known in recent years for Netflix\u2019s \u201cRussian Doll.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Each episode focuses on a different case each week. Charlie solves murders using her unique lie-detection ability, logic and personal senses. It\u2019s essentially a detective show in the tradition of \u201cColumbo\u201d However, the whodunit structure can be inverted into a \u201chowcatchem.\u201d This is because the audience already knows the whodunit and can see how the detective solves the case. \u201ccatchem.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Of Johnson\u2019s six feature films as a writer-director, three are whodunit stories. Although it may not seem so, the detective genre has a tendency to be conservative. Most of the greatest detective stories involve murder, a violent revolutionary act that\u2019s usually about an imbalance of power or stolen property. Either way, it\u2019s the job of the detective to uphold natural rights or law and order against agents of chaos, usually by discerning the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentally, conservatism and leftism differ in the belief that human nature can be fixed. The conservative believes reality is beyond the control of individuals and can&#8217;t be altered. The leftist believes ideological solutions are capable of changing human nature. The leftist sees humanity as a problem that must be solved. However, the conservative views his nature as something to be loved and lived with, and not in the Frankenstein laboratory for political revolution. <\/p>\n<p>The detective is, in many ways the ultimate conservative character. Their logic derives from the human heart. They are constantly on the lookout for truth.<\/p>\n<p>These stories feature many villains who long for revenge. \u201cbe their own truth\u201d Or create a new reality. This is why so many norms are broken. Johnson, it\u2019s worth noting, made some of the finest episodes of \u201cBreaking Bad,\u201d This is arguably the most powerful comment on this tragic tendency. <\/p>\n<p> Fighting the Revolution <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoker Face\u201d is an extension of Johnson\u2019s conservative tendencies. Our collective forgetfulness about the American left&#8217;s violent past is one of the most bizarre aspects of American history. For instance, the 2008 controversy over Obama\u2019s connections to Bill Ayers is barely remembered. In episode five, however, \u201cPoker Face,\u201d Our detective character is confronted with the most vile form of American leftism: domestic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Poker Face&#8217; is proof positive the best stories are always fundamentally conservative because they get human nature right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":1841668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8108,18238,4914,4378,5576,14414,18236,18237,15763],"class_list":["post-1841665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-nature","tag-poker","tag-conservative","tag-face","tag-human","tag-johnsons","tag-rian","tag-undeniably","tag-understanding"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}