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The message of the last samurai is that the emperor betrayed sonnō jōi.
But I mean, yeah, the movie is about how the traditional Japanese order of society is good actually and western influence is corrupting it. Which is a surprisingly often employed motif by western filmmakers making fiction about Japan.
Like the only way western filmmakers can imagine appealing to a japanese audience is making movies about how ending Sakoku was a mistake.
Which is ironic, as the common Western notion of the samurai is based on a flimsy pseudo-history intended to make feudal Japan seem heroic by Western standards. So it’s this weird ouroboros of the West lamenting that they’ve sullied the old ways of Japan, but the vision of Old Japan they’re painting is itself a Western dilution.
Ah yes, because when I think "movies that aren't right wing" I think "There's no way that movie where Tom Cruise is a white saviour for the Japanese Samurai and helps them rediscover their honour by being a better samurai than any of them could be and completely ignores all of the actual realities of the Boshin war and turns it into a basic "tradition vs modernity and modernity bad" conflict could ever possibly be right wing. Because most of the actors aren't white, just the lead."
The movie isn't about the Boshin war, it's a fictionalising of the Seinan war. Ken Watanabe plays a fictionalised version of Saigō Takamori rather than the shogun, and the culminating battle is a thinly veiled battle of Shiroyama.
Issues such as existing trade, the issues of whether the shogun or the emperor were the traditional seat of acctual power, and whether the country should modernise were settled.
Saigō Takamori killed hundrds of his countrymen (With modern weaponry, including a gatling gun at the battle of Toba–Fushimi) to make his country more racist and put Meiji on the throne. He was directly behind the abolishment of the Han system and backed Meiji as he ended Shizoku feudal privileges. He only flipped because the Meiji government was not imperialist enough (Yes really) and the betrayal of the principles of sonnō jōi (Anti western reactionary politics).
The man left government in anger after the emperor refused to allow him to go to Korea on his own to stir up enough trouble that war would become inevitable.
How would Mateix be a right wing film?
Because they have very shallow media literacy because they don't even understand how reality works. They think the entire world is a communist, gay, atheist, free love dystopia while right wingers are an incredibly small resistance movement. They sincerely think because they can't say slurs in public that they're enemies of a massive control mechanism.
They are in fact subjects of a control mechanism but it's capitalism. They're only able to see the masks that capitalist imperialism adopts. They're unable to fundamentally understand that the mask of liberal tolerance, dei, corporate rainbow logos, etc, that these are simply affectations that the machine takes to hide the reality of its brutality. Right wingers have broken brains, so they can't realize liberal messaging isn't for them, it's for comfortable liberals who consciously realize imperialism is bad, but cognitively disassociate because the CIA will do ads about racial tolerance or whatever. Right wingers think those ads are sincere, not simply a soothing balm for liberals.
So right wingers think escaping the matrix would involve breaking free of liberal messaging and doing imperialist brutality for real, since they are so confused they believe the brutality isn't happening, or that it isn't brutal enough
rightists think they are the small resistance being beset on all sides by the evil system that tries to brainwash them. they think mainstream media is communist. they think the educational system is woke and leftist. they think big corporations are socialist. they think bill gates wants to make you a communist slave with his woke vaccine and lab grown meat.
because right wingers are illiterate
