• @almar_quigley
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    911 months ago

    The book maybe but the movie definitely glorifies the violence without direct context for why it’s wrong. At least to a degree that can be easily understood by the target audience of teenage boys.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 months ago

      So, the director hid a swastika in one of the shadows to indicate that he thought the society was evil, among a ton of other things. He talked about it in the director’s commentary. But yeah, it’s actually super easy to miss unless you know it’s actually a warning (which, like you said, the teenage boys it’s marketed to wouldn’t understand)… Which is kind of the problem with a lot of media, like the entire genre of cyberpunk.

      • R0cket_M00se
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        511 months ago

        He also didn’t even bother to finish the book he was making a movie about, so it’s clear how he thought the story went.

        • CephaloPOTUS
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          211 months ago

          I mean he had read the recently released novel and started asking around for someone to pay for him to make it into a movie. So maybe you are making a “clever” quip about how he must not have read the ending to get it that wrong but that’s not how your message sounded with that wording.

    • @PopcornPrincess
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      111 months ago

      I loved the movie which made me read the book and then I understood the message. The book is fantastic.