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Anon watches The Whale (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day 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 5 points 1 day 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 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Also, Jesus.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day 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 3 points 1 day 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.