To no fault of Blomkamp, any effort to re-imagineStarship Trooperswithout a satirical or self-critical edge is fraught.
“I am a meat popsicle.”
Verhoeven is not a director to wink at the audience and let them be privy to his subtext.
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Critics believed he was condoning the fascist ideology in the film.
This commentary is far more bracing and rhetorically influential than didactic hand-wringing about a respective social or political cause.
TheStarship Troopersnovel is not worth “canceling,” as it is a product of its time.
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Paul Verhoeven’s satiredisguised as a traditional sci-fi war filmwas ahead of its time.
Any satire on fascism released today would be speaking to the present moment.
Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs.
