Unlike anything else you will see in this year or any other The Decline of the West is a groundbreaking social allegory that challenges its audience to explore the effects of contemporary conditioning of the stereotypes and counterstereotypes surrounding race and ethnicity By employing a unique blend of absurdist humor and dry dark comedy both the insularity and the inertia of progressive society are put on trial and hanged in this bold film that goes places few have ever gone The film maintains its extended detailed allegory in which the physical layout of Manhattan comes to life as its symbols of Progress slowly turn it into a comic liberal dystopia Anything that isnt allowed is used to confront the audience with hypocrisy Makeup plays a crucial role throughout the film as a hinge that simultaneously showcases characters and the existential reality of the players behind them
