content: If you haven't figured it out, it's not simply Republicans. Run a search on "Frankfurt School" and you've got the ideological underpinnings for this hysterical film. Sure, other countries can boast their state-supported "culture" films with actors shouting pompous softball Marxist lines in massive traffic jams; those are fine films. But Mr. Carpenter's auteur vision (he wrote the script under a pseudonym) features a working-class hero who could kick all their butts without breaking character in the most elegantly transparent, completely unpretentious Marxist parable produced anywhere. Hollywood in the Reagan 80s just makes it much sweeter.