Capitol - Washington - Versailles & the electoral campaign

Rating: 4/10 (6 April 2012)

I am an Italian guy (so sorry for grammar) and have just seen it. This movie suffers several major defaults which in my opinion are not the cause of a mere poor execution but are the result of his propagandistic nature. Why? First: the stereotypes about poverty. Future is poverty, but not ANY poverty: a Great Depression style poverty. The poor in the future wears clothes which resembles those of the 20s, lives in houses like those of the 20s and works in 20s style conditions (and of course woman stops working and go back home while men become once again miners). This is a pure stereotype, developed in all the movies on the great depression and on poverty in general. But I think that it is meant to be the most stereotyped so as to "speak" to the most people; to make them fear what could happen in the future (does the city where the protagonist lives remind you of any recent political republican spot?).
Second: fault is of the government. The fault of that situation is of the government of the Capitol (Capitol is the Capital/the Capital is Capitol). The current capital of the USA, if I do not mistake, is Washington, were sieges the government. So in Washin... sorry, in the capital, there is a sort of Versailles style degenerated, luxurious and frankly effeminate aristocracy which concentrates the best of all stereotypes on aristocracy formulated since the French Revolution (they are fat, stupid, homosexuals and God know what else) in order to make them the most hateful as possible.
Third: very hateful bad-guys. For some sort of reason this people seems to believe that thieving children from the provinces of the empire, like once used to do vampires and monsters, and make them kill each other would help to maintain peace. I do not know who had this idea while writing the plot or if it was the writer of the book, but please! The basic principle of a dictatorship is to maintain social peace, to not stress too much the emotions of the people, and now those guys come and thieve (thieve!) children (children!) and kill them? Honestly, on "How to cause a popular uprising" manual this is step n° 1. But again, in my advice the purpose of this film is not to be realistic or even plausible. Its purpose is to instill fear and hate toward the elite who lives in the capital. But not TOO much hate, we don't want to make revolution no?
Fourth: very polite heroes. Apart of the fact that 90% of the characters in this movie are pure wasp race and of the only two black who appears, one is gay and the other gets killed quite uselessly, there is not a single real critic of the system. Yes the aristocracy is hateful, but the system does not get put into discussion. At the end of the film everybody is happy and get back to his house, evildoers are dead and the heroes are rewarded, none of them thinks even for a second to send everybody to hell and kill one of the aristocrats or the president; they all accept the system which after all leaves you a narrow possibility of escape. Again and again, this is republican propaganda: the ACTUAL government is a bunch of retarded and cruel homosexuals but you must not criticize the whole system, just the necessary to win next elections.