The most frightening thing about are the parallels.

Those would not be the parallels to the Thomas Pynchon book that director Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film is loosely based on. Rather, the Leonardo DiCaprio-led movie treats that absurdist novel about the fading waves of the 1960s and 70s counterculture movement as more an inspiration than a blueprint.

Instead, it would be the parallels to real life: more to our present day than the bloody "days of rage" drew from. The book followed an estranged couple of ex-radicals and their teen daughter in the mid-1980s — years after the heyday of organized leftwing political violence. moves us firmly to the present.

Now, instead of Ronald Reagan, the Vietnam war and the civil rights movement, we're dealing with Trump, immigration raids and the

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