Well before he shot “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola spoke of his central concern. “I’d like this one question to be discussed,” Coppola told GQ in 2022. “Is the society we live in the only one available to us?” He shared the same sentiment, spoken in the same words, in a statement he gave to Vanity Fair last month, and, to hammer the point, he has his main character repeat the line verbatim at a pivotal moment in the film.
The scene arrives at the midway mark of Coppola’s goofy and grandiose new project, as a live performer emerges from the audience to shout questions at a Coppola-analogue giving a press conference on screen.
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