This was posted by Ron Hill with the caption, Critics are dumb. Now, aside from the surprise news that Ron reads The Atlantic, the article itself, made me respond, as follows: Ywe,Yes, but Calum Marsh exhibits exactly the same misapprehension of the book its based on. Heinlein was not painting a picture of Utopia flowing from a military dictatorship. He was examining how such a society indoctrinates those necessary for its continued existence, while effectively neutering potential opposition. By limiting the franchise to veterans (and only veterans -- active duty troops cant vote) and enforcing strictly military discipline for all civil crimes, there can be no effective opposition. Writer Edward Neumeier and director Paul Verhoeven left a lot of that detail out in favor of broader satire of modern media. Want to know more? is only barely subtler than Ill buy that for a dollar! Critics were dumb to miss that, but Marsh is dumb to miss the point of the original novel in criticizing the films critics. And audiences that only look at the surface of art always miss the point. People always talk about subtext, but they never talk about the stuff thats above the subtext. You mean the text? Yes! No one ever talks about that. -- Whit Stillman, Barcelona
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:57:55 +0000
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