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3 Panel Comic
Panel 1: James sits clutching a mug nervously as he listens to a conversation he’s afraid of. He stares at something off screen. Near by, a woman and smartly dressed man talk movies over their drinks. The woman nods along.
Man: I’d say probably the best filmmaking I’ve ever seen, has been ‘The Sacrifice’ by Tarkovsky
Woman: Mmhmm
Panel 2: James is pulled from whatever holds his attention as he’s dragged into the conversation.
Man: What about you James? What would you say is the best film you have ever seen?
James: Huh?
Panel 3: James turns back towards the window he’s been watching as he feeds the man an expected answer.
James: Ah! Uhm y’know… ‘Mulholland Drive’, maybe ‘Vertigo’
Outside the window, the movie ‘Step Brothers’ bangs on the glass demanding to be acknowledged. knock knock knock
Robocop is a great movie and far from bring a dumb action movie. Behind its appearance it’s actually a very deep and layered movie Even Paul Verhoeven couldn’t see it when he first saw the script until he actually read it carefully. The title and the main concept are subtly satirical and it’s not apparent until you actually watch it. When I say it is one of my favorites to movie people, they always look at me funny. Unless they actually saw it.
My favorite movie IS actually Mulholland Drive but I never say it to anyone because I’m always afraid people will think I’m a pretentious dick trying to look smart. This post doesn’t help XD
Yeah, Blade Runner was great for the atmosphere, but it didn’t really emphasize PKD’s overall message about empathy. Robocop came out of that, it was about underlining that message. And yeah it’s about a corporation literally taking away a person’s humanity, but also removing humanity from society in general.
The US is at war with Mexico in Robocop, but nobody even cares. There’s one line where a cop says “Damn! They bombed Acapulco!” the other cop says “So what?”, and the first cop says “I booked my vacation there, I gotta call my travel agent!”
It’s a world where there’s virtually no empathy left, and turning a human into a robot is representative of what corporate culture is doing to people.
Alex Murphy is able to recover some of his humanity, but he doesn’t fully escape from the system. He is still limited by the corporation’s directives at the end of the movie, but he does have his identity as Alex Murphy in the end, so that’s good I guess? It doesn’t hold your hand about this, it’s a smash cut to the end credits. It’s just like “you figure it out!”