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Originally Posted by kid cue
i liked it too, a lot, but mainly for formal reasons -- i love his roving camera, and thought it worked much better (and made more sense) for immersing the viewer in a fictional future than for following Harry and Ron in their flying car. it was one of the most convincing dystopian futures i've seen, largely because it was so understated. the film's "importance" seems to have taken a backseat to (really amazing) visual imagery and heavy symbolism, though its big moments were big indeed. i left with the effect of having been very impressed, but not especially moved. the ending was maybe part of that.
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I really liked that aspect of it too. it lets us know just as much as the characters in the movie that everything has been fucked for awhile and they're just living with it. it can't really be boxed inside the pretense of a "warning" without clouding up everything amazing about this movie.
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Originally Posted by GreenPea
WTF  There is nothing racist about it. In fact i though the movie erred in being a bit too pollitically correct. Basically the fascist government depicted seems to not have race issues wathsoever but just discriminate along the lines of nationality. I thought that was more than a bit unrealistic as racism is a very real issue and it is hard for me to believe that a goverment that is so discriminatory against immigrants from eastern europe would have no issues wathsoever with black people or indian people as long as they have a british citizenship. That was silly. |
i thought they correctly identified the kind of racism that the government wouldnt make policy but would enact through its agents. the two cops that disproportionately freak out at the mere sight of luke, the belief that they wouldnt believe that a new child could come from a "fugee" aka predominantly minority sector, and i'd believe that with the policy of "immigrants banned" that the government instructed to carry that out would add people that LOOK foreign into that pile and carry out their own bigotry under the guise of the law.