How Steven Soderbergh’s Post-Hiatus Movies Condemn the Rich and Powerful

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Capitalism gets critiqued in an entertaining fashion in Steven Soderbergh's most recent directorial works.

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In 2017, director Steven Soderbergh returned from “retirement" which has ended up being more of a hiatus, with the movie Logan Lucky. Though he had been away from helming feature-length movies for four years, Soderbergh wasted no time in churning out films in a quick fashion. Just seven months after Lucky hit theaters, his 2018 feature Unsane debuted while 2019 would see the premiere of two different Soderbergh projects.

In an extra twist on the heist movie formula, the people that have been heisted aren’t suddenly ruined. Rather, the Speedway’s insurance covers the rest of the missing cash. FBI Agent Sarah Grayson voices the script and audience’s befuddlement at how the Speedway, and other rich organizations by proxy, can barely get dented financially. There’s always somebody around to clean up the mess and make sure their cash flow remains constant.

There is no heightened science-fiction or convoluted justification for what’s going on with Valentini and the other people trapped at Highland Creek. Soderbergh makes the explanation behind the film’s story as simple as people wanting to get rich and having no issue exploiting others to get there. The dismissal of Valentini’s concerns over her stalker in the name of getting more dollars goes hand-in-hand with how often capitalistic desires inform erasing the voices of marginalized communities.

The Laundromat is a significant step down from the preceding three movies in Soderbergh’s filmography. The screenplay by Scott Z. Burns has an expansive scope, but in the process, it loses sight of the intimate ways the wealthy exploit the working class. However, at least the shortcomings in this project make one appreciate the exploration of economic disparity and flaws of capitalism were in Soderbergh’s earlier works.

The claustrophobic and wonky camerawork of KIMI puts us right inside the mindset of Childs, making us even more immersed in her emotions. We share in frustration over how little the company she works for cares about a woman getting murdered. Human lives and the experiences of women, especially sexual assault survivors, do not mean anything to these gigantic corporations and the people that run them if profits get jeopardized.

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