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I mean, obviously — but what I’m saying is that verhoven didn’t do a great job of showing the downside of “facism”.
The good guys won and everyone celebrates at the end.
I get ya. One of my favorite movies tbh.I think that's the point. The film itself is supposed to look like a fascist propaganda film, which is why everyone and everything is so clean and fake looking. The film itself isn't going to have a "fascism bad" message, it plays it's ridiculousness completely straight.. ie Neil Patrick Harris literally rocking SS officer uniform and its not so much as raises an eyebrow.
Yeah, it's the only superhero show I bother watching. But it's very adult and very fucked up I'm addicted. All the other over saturated shows can ram it.It never interested me and I'm sick of super hero crap unless it's truly unique. I have not watched many shows and movies the last film I watched was The Iron Claw.
The funniest thing was when they were highlighting the whole Trump phenomenon using homelander in his place where he killed some liberal douche with his laser beams. That one white dude, who's for sure a liberal dork in real life, got all excited and was like "YEA! OMG DADDY!". Conservatives are Nazis, very original and elevated writing.
It's cringe as fuck and you roll your eyes when it happens but it doesn't really spoil it for me. I still enjoyed the show.
Its interesting as well in that it plays up the idea of sexual equality(although having children is somehow controlled isnt it?) in the military down to men and women showering together with no hint of harassment, I would argue that was actually a very good prediction of how some liberial issues would be used to push a position of authoritarian imperialism.I think that's the point. The film itself is supposed to look like a fascist propaganda film, which is why everyone and everything is so clean and fake looking. The film isn't going to have a "fascism bad" message, it plays it's ridiculousness completely straight.. ie Neil Patrick Harris literally rocking SS officer uniform and its doesn't raise a single eyebrow.
I havnt got past season 2Who's your favourite character?
If they are, it definitely isn't in equal measures.But they're making fun of the woke dorks too. Like the guy who got lasered - typical low testosterone twink woke guy.
They're parodying everyone.
Another day, another brackis response thread.
Another show that just leaned into its worst tendencies. Complete, hyperbolic, polemic dogshit manufactured by people who spend their entire lives immersed in fantasy, and have the most superficial knowledge of the issues on which they seek to meaningfully comment.
It's become a disease across corporate art. It's too bad, really, but I suppose it was only a matter of time. Nothing gold can stay. Lately, finding greener pastures is as difficult in the realm of fiction as it is in the real world, it seems.
They have a character wearing an American flag fucking a literal Nazi, and said Nazi giving a rally speech on stage using new internet slang terms like "SJW" while making strong statements about immigration which are consistent with similar sentiments popular with nearly half the country. The aim is deliberate. They are conflating these symbols, these characters, these historical political movements, and these colloquialisms.
America has become the bad guy. Patriots are psychopaths. People who use terms like SJW or passionately disfavor mass illegal immigration are Nazis. A conspiratorial, coordinated, Machiavellian scheme to horde wealth is the only motive driving successful people who call the shots at every level of American society.
Political philosophy brought to you by people whose lives are dedicated to make believe, and who occupy one of the least ideologically diverse areas of the country.
It's a pile of shit.
I would take no issue with that if they didn't characterize the villains with a contemporary, hyperpartisan brush. Watching the show has become like suffering the sick, distorted worldview of a Daily Beast editorialist who has no concept of proportions.
The two main antagonists giving a speech about immigration policy, one of whom is a Nazi, hellbent on "saving the culture" by creating a master race of "supes" like her counterpart, who is draped in an American flag, rants about terrorists, vents about "snowflakes" and "SJWs" who frustrate his great vision for unilaterally dispensing justice as he sees it when he recklessly piles up bodies of civilian casualties while dealing with these hostile threats in his pseudo-military capacity, and laments that the country isn't great like it used to be when it was "one nation under God".
Yet you presume to argue "not everything is a political statement"??! Get real. This show is explicitly political.
I am an active reader, an active viewer. I cannot disengage this. I am complaining because sitting back, relaxing, and enjoying some fun narratives that exercise some ideas (however light) is exactly what I want from TV. Fiction without political sermonizing is an increasingly endangered form of entertainment. The show is failing this benchmark, not me. I love fiction as an escape to a place of conceptual purity. Always have. Love. Loss. Revenge. It's timeless.
Suspending disbelief is logistical. It offers no relief to the intended meaning of the fantasy world itself. You can vilify corporations, the individuals who run them, and culture itself without loading a work of fiction with vicious, partisan lecture. You want me to sit back and relax? Give me Total Recall.
Brother, I keep tryin but they keep comin’.You want to turn off young straight men?
After your contributions to this thread I'm 100% convinced you have no idea what parody is. You think parody is making a character look like someone from real lifeBut they're making fun of the woke dorks too. Like the guy who got lasered - typical low testosterone twink woke guy.
They're parodying everyone.
We get it, you are so enlightened watching two men kiss is just great.
A utopian society is one in which you do not get the rights of a citizen unless you join the military and go watch your friends get turned into blood mist by this fuckin' thing???I mean, they hated the aliens but the streets were clean, everyone had healthcare and education and seemed pretty darn happy!
“The center”
Lol
I always felt like The Boys mocked both sides really well.
Truther Conference and LGBTurkey Burgers.
Homelander Models Trump and Neuman models AOC.
Thought this was all obvious.