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Anon watches The Whale (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

RoboCop and Starship Troopers (by the same director, no less) are other examples of people completely missing the point, and taking the film at face value.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Robocop’s message was pretty simple, I thought. If you do crime, you’ll get your genitals shot off by a cyborg.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And if you're a cop, you're gonna work after death

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Also, Jesus.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Alt Right tried to claim They Live as an anti-Jewish alligory.

Carpenter ended up tweeting:

“THEY LIVE is about yuppies and unrestrained capitalism. It has nothing to do with Jewish control of the world, which is slander and a lie.”

It's the example I cite whenever someone tried validating a smooth brain media interpretation by claiming "Death of the Author!".

[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Starship troopers's point was missed by the same people making the sequels to it, I was so disappointed by the sequels, and don't understand how they could have been so oblivious.