Dude was dead and they still made him go to work.
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And, this bears repeating, he's OCP property now.
In the same vein, remember when the cyborgs kept killing themselves because they couldn’t tolerate their new bodies and the solution wasn’t to make their bodies more palatable, but instead to make the cyborg less human? Robocop has aged far better than I expected.
Yeah. That part.
Whoa, careful with that trans propaganda you got there. It’d be a damn shame if we started treating human beings how they’d like to be treated, at minimal or negative cost to ourselves.
Um, I'm not sure where I went wrong there. My intention, beyond pointing out the wayward capitalist venture, was just to reminisce on that harrowing sequence. The "volunteer subjects" went through involuntary and invasive changes not just without consent, but largely after dying. The "viable" subject wound up working partly as a result of forced addiction to nuke.
Oh no, I was being sardonic in order to further the, far more horrifying than I remembered, videos of people rejecting their bodies with such terrifying vehemence that they immediately terminated every sentient being within their capacity, including themselves.
As a commentary on trans issues, work culture, capitalism, political favoritism, etc., robocop is upsettingly timeless.
Gotcha. That makes more sense now. Paul Verhoeven's satire is frequently misunderstood/misinterpreted.
I was about to ask how someone could misunderstand someone beating you over the head with violent authoritarianism for 2 hours, but…
It should be so easy, but then, here we are.
wut
As a commentary on trans issues, work culture, capitalism, political favoritism, etc., robocop is upsettingly timeless. Its relevance is endless and interpretations many.
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I think the problem with that film is that corporate America used it as a guide rather than a warning
Most cyberpunk is seen as a guide instead of agitprop and a warning these days.
Introducing the torment Nexus from the Syfy novel for the love of God. Please do not build the torment Nexus
It was barely set five minutes into the future at the time it was made in Reagan’s America.
Cyberpunk. The most prophetic literary genre of the 20th century.
also, remove the organ donor status from your driver's license.
It's not like if they really wanted to harvest your organs that they'd let that stop them. But it would stop the legitimate uses it was originally intended for.
Could be worse than end up as Robocop.
How the body of an Arizona great-grandmother ended up as part of a U.S. Army blast test