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The Matrix made me realise my whole reality was a lie and now I’m pro-Patriarchy, pro-Authoritarian and pro-conformity just like the characters.
I think people don't realize you're making fun of manosphere and alt right creators co opting the terms from the movies like red pill and others.
I think Flight Club is a better idea of the right people walking away with the wrong message.
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.
Robocop’s message was pretty simple, I thought. If you do crime, you’ll get your genitals shot off by a cyborg.
And if you're a cop, you're gonna work after death
Also, Jesus.
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.
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!".
Fight Club is such a good movie. It seems like an awful lot of people don't understand it at all. The same with American Psycho. You definitely nailed it with the right people walking away with the wrong message.
Not a movie, but RATM is my favorite example of this. Or the Punisher.
“Some of those that burn torches are the same that burn crosses!” Yeah!! Woohoo!! What fun music. Go GOP!!
Punisher badges on police equipment.....
Exactly! Cypher is the only sensible person in that whole world. /s
All he wanted was a nice steak. What's wrong with that?
Trump gives the vibes of a piece of shit steak-loving betrayer who wanted to be put back into the battery pod and be king who's ass is kissed globally
Trump famously eats only well-done steak
Eventually getting flushed into the gutter when the human battery's best before date passes?