Spy 5

One problem that the movie, Spy, addresses in comedic form is the problem of the appropriate apportioning (balancing) of the emotions, the appetite, and the intellect to a person through visual art. We have become an extreme culture. Perhaps in the 1950's, we had a fairly good apportioning process in the movies. Nowadays, people do not know who they are. There is spillage, as to say. At one time, we can be rational and fair-minded. At another time, we can be totally irrational and evil. The people in this movie live in a continuum.

We have become an extreme culture because the same pleasure cannot be gotten from the same experience over and over again. What gave us pleasure at one point now gives us pain and even suffering. At the same time, no culture has remained "moderate" for an extended period of time. Cultures become decadent usually during the fin-de-siecle. For some reason, American culture has become decadent now.