The Anti-Capitalist/Soscialistic message in the "Man of Steel" movie

One_Profiteer · 10:01 PM

So I went and watched the Superman movie... expecting nothing but a good ol' superhero action packed flick but I couldn't help but notice the overtones of Anti-Capitalist, leftist/progressive/socialist implications.

I picked up on this mainly when Superman's biological father told him about planet Krypton using up all of their resources and that he should help Planet Earth not to make the same mistake. Hints of Global Warming/Climate change/radical environmentalism were duly noted.

They tried to disguise this by pretending to be moderate/centrist in having Russel Crowe's character reject Planet Krypton's Totalitarian Dystopia where every citizen's profession is chosen for them at birth. As if saying...."see we're not far-left progressives, we like Capitalism and freedom...we're moderate like Obama (yuck). We're against Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism."

Whatever happened to the 1980's Reagan Era, fun flick without all the far-left ideology? Keep it clean...with an All-American, freedom loving, patriotic, superhero, dressed in red, white and blue voluntarily saving the day... for free (I disagree, personally I would charge them a fee for every chaos/disaster prevented and in the long run it would be a lot cheaper for them, then all the infrastructure spending, rebuilding of houses if I hadn't stepped in... but that's just me).

TBear

Have you considered the possibility you are reading too much into this?

One_Profiteer

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Originally Posted by TBear

Have you considered the possibility you are reading too much into this?

No...but I have considered the possibility that you responded before reading the entire post.

HUGH JASS

have you been smokin the ol puff puff tonight bro???

F l i c k e r

People don't deserve a choice. Their jobs should be chosen for them at a young age by what they show the most aptitude in.

Russian Crushin

Strictly_UG

Well isn't that how movies are usually made?

Drawing from examples in real life?

TBear

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Originally Posted by One_Profiteer

No...but I have considered the possibility that you responded before reading the entire post.

Probability!

Mannie Phresh

Gotta disagree with you on this. The krypton gov was a socialists wet dream but using resources responsibly isn't a crazy lefty idea its just smart. And the kryptonians were mining their planets core. If we ever get to the point where we can reach and mine the core of earth we should not at all. I mean it maintains our magnetosphere if we phyucked witht that we'd turn into radiation soaked mars.

One_Profiteer

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Originally Posted by F l i c k e r

People don't deserve a choice.

I will agree with this when it comes to Liberal arts in music, philosophy and the like. Worthless degrees with unproductive professions...

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