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

By: georgeforster1998
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What’s scary – and I believe this was Verhoeven’s intent – was that Starship Troopers wasn’t that far off the Hollywood normal.

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Image is from the film The Death of Stalin. A group of politicians crowd round to take a photo.

‘The Death of Stalin’ (2017) and Humor Driven by Fear

By: Justin Alvarez
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The Death of Stalin is about a cult of personality that fights for the right to bend reality to whatever they wish it to be, with a population held hostage by the anxiety that emanates from unstable, self-centered government.

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