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Starship Troopers is an incredible movie which I love very much but unfortunately it fails as a satire, simply because it was made for Americans who are too stupid to understand its themes or subtlety
IT'S NOT EVEN SUBTLE
I don't think we are a fair judge of that because we are like top 1% of people in snooping out the kind of thing Starship Troopers wants to say
"Snooping out" is not a real term but pretend it is ok
Snooping out is when you do snoop dog amounts of drugs till you pass out.
I don't think it fails as a satire, I just don't think satire is an avenue to change. It can be entertaining, but it's not going to convince anyone of anything they didn't already know and the people who don't already know will miss the point.
100% agree with this. Satire entertains us very much but ends up being absorbed by fascists and becoming part of their propaganda sphere. Even something unambiguous good vs bad can be absorbed such as the Star Wars Empire.
In the unambiguous good vs bad I think the good it does in warning people of the bad outweighs their absorbing it but not in the case of satire where fascists are portrayed as good.
I think this is less the fault of the movie, and more the fault of satire having a minimum requirement for understanding too high for Americans
Unfortunately if you're writing for an audience you have to take that kind of thing into account, especially so when you write satire