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Originally Posted by andyh2000
And there was me thinking it was a satire on fascism and militaristic societies.
Andrew
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Oh, I'm sure Paul Verhoeven would say the same thing, except by using the book as his source material, he is lumping every form of military service in with "fascism and militaristic societies."
To borrow from "A Few Good Men:"
The book uses words like honor, code and loyalty as the backbone of a life spent defending something. The movie uses them as a punchline.
Indeed, before I read the book, I simply saw the movie the same way, and it was merely pointlessly ultraviolent just like Verhoeven's other movies, like Robocop and Total Recall, but then I read the book, and I happened to be in the Navy at the time, and I saw the movie as an insult to those who serve. Particularly to war-fighters (which I was not.)