What you see is not what you get

Rating: 2/10 (29 December 2012)

Suppose you consider going to the cinema and want to see if a particular movie is worth watching. What do you do? Well, checking the film description and the trailer would sound like a logical thing to do. Having done both, you feel you have enough information to ground your decision upon, right? Well, wrong. Not in this case. The description and the trailer make you expect a nice mixture of Sci-Fi, mysticism, and philosophy combined with decent CGI and action sequences - but what you actually get is a wagonload of leftist propaganda whose presentation is about as subtle as forced stuffing of the stomach through an esophageal feeding tube. It's all there. Homosexuals? Check. Radical feminists? Check. Race mixing? Check. Noble black slaves abused by malicious whites? Check. Brave illegal immigrants? Check. Characters speaking in political statements and slogans? Check. Naturally, all the "non-whites" are exclusively "good guys" – I'll leave you to guess about the skin color of the "bad guys". Talk about racism. :) I have also noticed that propaganda and logic rarely come hand in hand – the latter may easily be (and usually is) sacrificed for the benefit of the former. For instance, the existence of a slaughterhouse for female Asian clones (want to guess what race the butchers are? :)) has no valid logical explanation – but who needs one? The idea is to shock – not to be logical. The same goes for a female journalist successfully "handling" a security chief and an ex-marine. Realistic? No. Logical? No. But if the point is to make a drastic emphasis on feminist "independence" - well, then There are, however, certain good sides to the film too – the acting was good (considering the cast, this is not really surprising), the whole "retirement home" plot line was OK too (though partially ruined by the – again – politically-laden speech about "rights"), the CGI was not bad either However, this does not save the film from being what it is - a compendium of leftist ideological statements transformed into exaggerated imagery. I have witnessed Soviet propaganda and brainwashing efforts, and thus I find attempts at ideological indoctrination through what is presented as "art" repulsive. Well, at least I learned the lesson and will from now on disregard official ads and reports. Note: if you want to watch this "Left-Wing Manifesto", yet for some reason feel that male homosexuals with a bent for gerontophilia are not really "your thing", you might want to have some antiemetics at hand. :)