10 Movies That Judge You For Watching

4. Vice

Adam McKay's Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) biopic isn't simply keen to make a mockery of its focal subject and take America's borked political process to task, it also refuses to let the general public off the hook simply for participating in it, regardless of their own political beliefs.

The focus group used to test the presentation of the Iraq War to the public earlier in the film re-appears in Vice's mid-credits scene, but this time they're arguing about the very movie you're watching.

On the right side of the spectrum, one member of the group calls out the film's apparent "liberal bias", while a left-leaning participant claims it's simply displaying the facts of the case.

Whoever you believe, a fight between the left and the right breaks out, all while an apathetic young woman in the middle talks to her friend about how much she's looking forward to the new Fast and the Furious movie.

Clearly, McKay is blaming the audience for much of the current political miasma: the left and the right can't have a rational interaction with one another, while those disinterested youngsters are totally blinkered to the terrible future they're going to inherit.

There's obviously a far greater nuance to real political discourse than this snappy scene can summarise, but more than anything else in the movie, it's desperately begging the audience to wake up and think about how they can affect real change.