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Thomas Cotton (column, Feb. 4) explains that it is immoral for the American people to support a President during a time of peace and prosperity simply because his personal life is not "virtuous." This reasoning can lead to a nearly fascist conclusion, concentrating the morals of society in its political leadership, which was elected for secular purposes and has not abused its power over the American people...
...comes off looking like a collection of highly regimented hoboes (all of that matted facial hair, along with an uninspired dress code, doesn't help matters). The Holnists are led by one General Bethlehem (Will Patton), a ruthless former copy machine sales clerk who found his true calling in fascist leadership after nuclear war vaporized society. Because he knows five or six lines of Shakespeare and can paint a passable self-portrait, he has risen to power in a world of idiots (remember, these are the same people who think Costner's mumbling Postman is brilliant). Patton is a serviceable...
Garcia Lorca also had ambitions to preform and revitalize the Spanish dramatic tradition. Unfortunately, the themes that his lyrical dramatic works treated--questioning the structures of patriarchy, religious authority, sexuality and social convention--were considered too subversive by the national authorities, the Fascist government of Francisco Franco. In August of 1936, Garcia Lorca was dragged into a field and murdered by Franco's agents, his body dumped into an unmarked grave...
...very funny. For Starship Troopers contains an unexplored premise. There are two classes in this futureworld: civilians, who have sacrificed voting privileges for material ease, and warriors, who earn the right to rule by their willingness to die for the state. In short, we're looking at a happily fascist world. Maybe that's the movie's final, deadpan joke. Maybe it's saying that war inevitably makes fascists of us all. Or--best guess--maybe the filmmakers are so lost in their slambang visual effects that they don't give a hoot about the movie's scariest implications...
...very upset," she says, puffing on a cigarette. "The stupid corporate fascist assholes come here and just take away my home...