Subtlety is for cowards

Someone mentioned here while talking about “Snowpiercer” and it made me think of movies that are great in spite of being “too on the nose” with their themes and intentions.

The first one that pops to my head is “Killing Them Softly”, it basically had the main characters spelling the meaning of the story and how it was an allegory of the 2008 financial crisis. It even had a character doing heroin to Velvet Undeground’s “Herorin”. But even with that, I think it’s really good.