Most of the state supported artists here are mediocre and even the otherwise good ones are mediocre in this anthology. But worse yet, much worse, is the creeping realization that the theme they were instructed to produce is adovacy for the EU as a government body -- ie a government taking the citizens' tax money to propagandize in adovacy of that government.
Is it any surprise that there is nothing critical of polices or directions or growth of EU central government and bureaucracy? Even when bureaucracy is criticized it is treated as a lighthearted small failing as opposed to the systemic and oppressive problem it is. All through this one feels in the background as how Soviet audiences in the 1930s or Chinese audiences in the 1970s must have felt watching an official propaganda films celebrating their governments.
