Title: Starship troopers excels at many different levels
Product review: Paul Verhoeven has managed to take a classic Sci-Fi masterpiece and make it better. his screen version hits us at different levels. First it is an action picture of massive dimensions, utilizing state of the art special effects to make the "bugs" incredibly real and dangerous. However, on another level, Verhoeven shows us how easily young people can be "brainwashed", so to speak, into accepting Fascism as the normal state of being. The whole movie is a primer on how nations have brainwashed their population into sacrificing themselves for the state. One very interesting feature on the DVD version is a running commentary by the director and screenwriter of the entire movie. It is extremely interesting.
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