[Marxism] A possibly interesting film

[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists]

"The film depicts Jane's habit as pathetic even as it plays for laughs. At
the same time, though "Smiley Face" suggests that the "straight" characters
Jane encounters — the casting director (Jane Lynch); a bullying beat cop
(Michael Shamus Wiles); a college professor's wife (Marion Ross) from whom
Jane steals an original copy of Marx and Engels's "Communist Manifesto"; a
couple of amiably clueless meat delivery men (Danny Trejo and John Cho); the
humorless Brevin (John Krasinski of NBC's "Office"), who likes getting his
teeth cleaned because it makes him feel "prosperous" — are in thrall to an
even more powerful drug: the myth of the American dream.

At one point Jane, who has somehow ended up at the meat-packing plant that
employs the delivery men, deflects a supervisor's ire by claiming to be a
union organizer, then fantasizes launching into a Marxist soliloquy about
industrial oppression of labor. Mr. Araki intercuts Jane's rant with
unsettling close-ups of meat being sliced, ground and liquefied. [...]"