Everyone who enjoys it seems to be bringing their love of other texts to it. Very little of what you mention is actually on screen in *this* movie.

What we do have are three semi-dimensional characters surrounded by a pack of thinly drawn caricatures, cobbled together with contrivances and happenstance.

I just need anyone who loved this movie to explain how the ex-husband's girlfriend isn't an embarrassingly juvenile, C-level sitcom reject? This is a character who, having just read a book, doesn't know if it was about polo or polio. How am I supposed to care about anything of substance that happens in a universe that includes that person?

The lazy, half-addressed politics of the film didn't bother me half as much as the messy construction of the script.