today's #366Films, I'm still a day behind but I'll catch up, honest. Today I talk about American insularity and Starship Troopers https://www.patreon.com/posts/366-films-day-62-99783133?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
@BethanyBlack It's such a good film for all the reasons you describe and I am still angry and frustrated that the main problem seems to be that the incredibly-blatant satire of US fascism was somehow still too subtle for Americans.
But then see also RoboCop and Total Recall, I guess.
@owenblacker absolutely this I feel like it’s the proximity that makes it invisible. It’s such a European view of of how America sees itself
@BethanyBlack Absolutely — and again with the parallel to RoboCop; that too feels like a European view on the US's "everyone has a gun, but only the cops don't know how to use them" policing