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July 01, 2004
Starship Troopers
Watched Starship Troopers again tonight. Great movie.
Critics across the board have pretty much dismissed it as a pro-facist, Melrose Place in space summer blockbuster, but they've got it completely ass-backwards. This is satire, folks. The visual cues of Nazi Germany, from the eagle symbol of the Federation to the uniforms of military intelligence, should have made it obvious to any viewer that the film is trying to make a point. If the characters seem vacuous and bland, it's because the society in which they live have stripped them of their humanity, filling them instead with nonsense about patriotism and the glory of violence. That these would-be "citizens" are devalued as human beings is underscored by the fact that about half of the characters that are introduced in the film are brutally maimed, impaled, or torn apart by the end.
This film is anti-fascist; more than that, it is oddly prescient of the terrorist attacks on the United States and the reaction of the country and our government to those attacks.
Thankfully, the good people at the Digital Bits seem to have their heads screwed on right:
Posted by glyphic at July 1, 2004 12:29 AM