Art can function as a collective memorial. 

As a mass-media reflection of our times, a piece of art can be a site where society comes together to group-grieve a communal tragedy.

While various mediums have honored Covid victims, Dumb Money might be the first wide-release movie to explicitly stage a Covid funeral, an act of mourning for more than just the characters.

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Dumb Money might include another first, albeit a far less serious one:

“Seven Nation Army” began its life merely as a White Stripes song. But much like Europe’s “The Final Countdown”, sports fans may not be able to hear them strictly as songs anymore, because chanting crowds globe-wide have all but permanently transformed them into rally anthems; a generation of listeners won’t even realize they originated as songs, based on the understandable assumption that they were written to function purely as a fits-like-a-glove sports ditty.

And I can’t remember a movie prior to Dumb Money that uses “Seven Night Army” according to this adopted role.