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As one of the good guys grimly puts it, mounting a rebellion means resigning oneself to accepting loss after loss after loss until you finally pull out a victory.

As horrible as this is to witness, the situation also grimly verges on parody.

Adra hopes in vain that the mainstream media will report on these indignities, then has a visiting journalist talk grimly about once doing such a piece: People “paid attention to that for 10 minutes.”

The election result on Nov. 5 — just about 100 days after Harris’ overnight transformation — left Smith feeling sadly, grimly vindicated.

All three films offer a grimly transporting experience to a distant time and place, with an emotional and social immediacy that resonates deeply in the present.