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If you like Griffith, I don't wanna be your friend (thelemmy.club)
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[+] -32 points 4 days ago (7 children)

The Lemmy has decided that it is about facism so it is about facism, just like you might think the matrix is a fun sci-fi future tech action movie but it's not, it's actually about the experiences of transgenders

You see when you spend as much time online as the chronically online, you come to learn that if you overthink enough you can find problems with everything

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  • [–] 20 points 4 days ago

    The Lemmy has decided that it is about facism so it is about facism

    Well, so did films creators. Though as with all art of course you don't have to view it the same way its creator did. But there's no need to be an ass about it.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)

    It's satire. For goodness' sake, the plot begins in Buenos Aires in a majority white school.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    I think the SS uniforms, the eagles in the flag and the emblems, the social darwinist attitudes, passionate hate towards the bugs (a disgusting subhuman enemy which needs to be genocided for a final solution) and dismissals of logic in favor of propagandistic appeals to emotion are much more apparent examples. Also the fact that all the actors got cast for their looks in true propaganda movie fashion.

    The protagonists home could've been anywhere for the same plot, so my interpretation was that the city was named just to drive home the point that there's only one global state.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    That's the actual demographic in Buenos Aires today.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago

    Having never been to Buenos Aires, I expected to see brown people when I looked up Buenos Aires. But no, their demographics are majority non-native. Colonialism and immigration hit them like a train. To be clear, I don't mean a mechanical locomotive.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 child)

    Neil Patrick Harris is dressed in a blatant SS look alike uniform at the end and Switch exists in the Matrix movie. Matrix was more overtly about the illusions of a constructed soceity but I feel like the trans allegory was always there. Isn’t the red pill a HRT reference since estrogen pills were red in the 90s?

    SwitchSwitch was originally meant to change genders upon entering the Matrix, which coined their name "Switch". In the real world, Switch would be male, and in the Matrix, Switch would be female - a very clever and critical point of the 'residual self-image' idea. When actress Belinda McClory auditioned for the role, she was going for only half the role - Switch's Matrix form. Warner Brothers made the decision to cut this and give Switch one form for both environments.

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