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Jim Halsey (from The Hitcher) collapsed on his knees out of distress by the side of the road. With a rural landscape of sand, slight greenery and mountains behind him, he looks ahead with some blood on his face and a handgun in his hand, as if just contemplated suicide but decided against it.

In ‘The Hitcher’ (1986), an Act of Kindness Results in a Claustrophobic Highway Nightmare

Derived from an act of kindness, ‘The Hitcher’ is pure chaos unravelling on the American highways as a young man has his life turned into a nightmare by the hitchhiker he was naive enough to pick up.

[The Revolution Will Be Televised] Starship Troopers (1997) and American Fascism

What’s scary – and I believe this was Verhoeven’s intent – was that Starship Troopers wasn’t that far off the Hollywood normal.