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  • For general audiences it is a fun sci fi movie. The idea is that if a fascist country in the future existed then Starship Troopers would be the movie they’d watch.

    The attractive actors shower together without being turned on because service > sex. The main character Juan Rico chooses service over Harvard (despite getting terrible grades). Rico feels virtually no sexual feelings towards his female counterpart but suddenly does when his Lieutenant tells him to.

    It’s definitely unique. Most movies use satire in a way that is very on the nose, but starship troopers is saying “here is what propaganda could look like”. A world where violence is beautiful and sex and love are barely existent. The book it is based on was written by an actual fascist. Verhoeven lived through nazi occupation. When he came to America to direct movies he was shocked by the violence he saw. He made robocop to poke fun at the ultraviolence in Hollywood, but we were unable to see that because we are desensitized to the violence.


  • Hunger - about Bobby Sands’ hunger strike in prison.

    Snowpiercer - badass

    Parasite - one of the best movies ever made

    Salo or 120 days of sodom - very gruesome and hard to watch. Only see it if you think you’re up for it. It’s an anti fascist movie made by a communist.

    Fiddler on the Roof - has some mentions of the 1917 revolution lol

    They Live - good critique of capitalism and how it shapes our realities

    Starship Troopers - fascist satire

    Che - no comment needed

    Children of Men - the bleak future of capitalism

    Sorry to Bother You - good, weird movie with a heavy dose of unionizing