So while I do like BND, I do dislike the blatant copaganda and pro surveillance camera attitude that is present throughout.
"But Max!" you say "Damage Control were the bad guys!"
But Damage Control isn't *real.* They are a fictional organization that, while could be seen as an allegory for real life orgs, is also so deeply separated by only focusing on supervillans, super villan tech, mutants etc. The kind of thing that only exists in comics. They are *allowed* to be evil because they do not have a clear cut, one to one real world counterpart. The NYPD is shown to be morally upstanding, despite that being far from the truth for it or most police forces. Peter directly works with the police. And yes, this is something he does in the comics as well (comics also contain lots of copaganda), but the point still stands. There is an inherent dissonance in this film because they are unwilling to examine corruption outside of their fictional systems.
Yes, Damage Control are the bad guys. The film shows how you can't trust systems like that. And then the film ends with Peter calling up the police chief, continuing to work with her, any lesson he learned about not trusting the system is undercut because the movie is mot willing to show the absoultly horrific ways in which the police treat the populous of the city they operate in.
And that is not to say that the message is completely undermined, just weakened. A plot that deals with corruption in government orgs will never (in my opinion) land completely if in that same film they pay lip service to the police force.
The reality is that the police force *is* Damage Control in terms of corruption, abuse of power, of undermining peoples autonomy. They just are not allowed to be depicted as such.
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