Actually, I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of the film, in which Diane Lane plays a centrist mom and political scientist at Georgetown University, trying to keep her family and the discourse together. In essence, it’s a domestic drama with some autocracy for dummies around the edges. But what’s clever is its presentation of an Orwellian-style assault on democracy via language that sells plurality as hostile to “togetherness” and “unity” – very credible in today’s landscape.