All in Movie Review

Cool Hand Luke: The "Natural American Hero" versus the state

As we have experienced over the course of the last 20 months or so during this declared pandemic, heavy-handed challenges to the natural human right to speech and association are not reserved for the criminally inclined. Justified under the guise of a protective health regime in response to a novel Coronavirus unleashed from beyond the shores of America, we have all been placed into a proverbial work camp barracks. Instead of the “night in the box” or an extra set of leg irons for escape attempts, our technocratic “road bosses” determine when, where, and how we can work to support our families, worship our gods, and commune with our families and friends.