Yeah, it was such an odd film. I really wanted to like it because it looked good and it explicitly called out the West as the unmistakable bad guys, but there was just so much that needed to be completely rewritten to work.
I’ll add to your list of bad,
about the main character
Pretty much the entire plot is set into motion thanks to the protagonist being a traitor to the robots, his partner (who is having his baby!), and the village that sheltered him. And he’s still a piece of shit for pretty much the entire movie, until the very end.
I was also very bothered by how the primary motive for the protagonist was getting back Maya: the woman he lied to, betrayed, and directly caused the death of. Yet, it very much seemed to be written in a way that was intended for the audience to sympathize with???
Oh yeah, after all that, for his self-sacrifice at the very end, he gets a robot copy of Maya as his “reward.” Ugh.
Between this and the fake news comm, I’m rethinking trying to get comrades more involved on this site. Like, it’s just embarrassing and too much trouble to have to explain “oh yeah those really active comms that appear completely indistinguishable from reactionary trash are actually just ironic.”
The fact that all of these “jokes” could be posted on
with complete sincerity makes me suspect a lot of this content isn’t even ironic. I mean, if I was a reactionary trying to cause trouble for a leftist community, creating and participating in these kinds of comms is exactly how I would go about it.