I loved the movie which made me read the book and then I understood the message. The book is fantastic.
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almar_quigley@lemmy.world 6 months agoThe book maybe but the movie definitely glorifies the violence without direct context for why it’s wrong. At least to a degree that can be easily understood by the target audience of teenage boys.
PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 6 months ago
hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
So, the director hid a swastika in one of the shadows to indicate that he thought the society was evil, among a ton of other things. He talked about it in the director’s commentary. But yeah, it’s actually super easy to miss unless you know it’s actually a warning… Which is kind of the problem with a lot of media, like the entire genera of cyberpunk.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 6 months ago
He also didn’t even bother to finish the book he was making a movie about, so it’s clear how he thought the story went.
CephaloPOTUS@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean he had read the recently released novel and started asking around for someone to pay for him to make it into a movie. So maybe you are making a “clever” quip about how he must not have read the ending to get it that wrong but that’s not how your message sounded with that wording.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Do you mean fight club 2 ?