In fact it took four decades for the realization that socialism is economically impracticable not to mention morally wrong, to penetrate the minds of enough people to bring the Berlin Wall crashing down. It's because commercially successful popular movies originate in what the late psychoanalyst Carl Jung called the Collective Unconscious. Hollywood has been dubbed the Dream Factory. Those who conferred this appellation on La La Land are more insightful than even they themselves realize. Just as an individual's dreams reflect the state of consciousness of the individual, so collective dreams reflect the state of consciousness of larger society.
Motion pictures are modern society's collective dreams.
Popular films, especially Hollywood blockbusters with global appeal, constitute windows into the modern world's Collective Unconscious. Like it or not, Hollywood, kneejerk liberal warts and all, is the modern world's Dream Factory. Written by Andrew Niccol. Written by Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer. Written by Daniel F. Galouye and Josef Rusnak.