In the halcyon days of the early 2010s, it seemed like we had the luxury of worrying about one large scale social issue at a time. For a few months in the fall of 2011, the Occupy Wall Street protests that gripped Zuccotti Park dominated headlines, inspired similar actions around the world, and shined a much-needed light on economic inequality, a disparity that has only become more pronounced in the near-decade that has passed. “Echo Boomers,” a heist film that references Occupy and reverberates with millennial anger at shrinking opportunities as the wealthy get wealthier, seems perfectly poised for this particular moment when the pandemic has further exposed that precipitous chasm.

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