As a prècis on the United States' position in the world, it's almost exactly 240 years out of date, but these are embattled times. This is a holiday where we come into community by imagining ourselves into - and then out of - oppression. Psychically, the Fourth is about the warlike leisure elicited by reflecting on a shared enemy. We celebrate "independence" by lacing frivolity with danger: bunting and barbecues, fireworks and beer. It's a fun and fitting sequel to the peculiar strand of American self-fashioning we practice on the Fourth of July. As the descendant of the revolutionary blockbuster that tried to export our national holiday to the entire world, it's a better X-ray of America than most. Resurgence isn't a good movie, but if you're trying to work out what Independence Day means in 2016, that isn't the point. We're 20 years older and - unlike Goldblum and Pullman and Spiner, whose character has literally been asleep since the '90s - a lot more cynical than we were the first time round. What does a triumphalist story about mankind coming together to overcome insurmountable odds look like in 2016?
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Plus Charlotte Gainsbourg, which makes absolutely no sense and is therefore perfect. It has Jeff Goldblum! Bill Pullman! Data! Space! All that was bright and good about the '90s (except Will Smith, who got too expensive). The sequel to 1996's jingoistic powerhouse Independence Day, Resurgence seemed as good a way as any to gauge the evolution of our patriotic fantasies over the last 20 years. On the 240th anniversary of our nation's birth, I lunched at McDonald's, drove to the biggest mall I could find, and watched Independence Day: Resurgence. Now that America is teetering on that darkest of dark timelines, I decided to shove aside my reservations and celebrate Independence Day by testing my American mettle. 21, 2015, and goggled at how long Donald Trump has haunted our dreams for America's future. I watched the Back to the Future trilogy on Oct. It's instructive to watch movies on the dates that matter to them.
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