The People's Critic is not blind. The skies over America are filled with mock combat demonstrations in celebration of the Capitalist Imperial dream. In response I shall review Independence Day, a film that is a thinly veiled attempt to stir up populist anger against the hard working proletariat.
The film starts when a group of hard working aliens arrives at the planet earth. They send out large landing craft to scout the planet for ruinous torture of the working masses. Finding that the planet is covered in capitalist greed, they make the logical conclusion that destroying the great monuments to excess and greed, the metropolis, will help start a proletariat revolution.
The bourgeois react in typical fashion, unleashing their nuclear weapons. The proletariat is prepared for this, and survive unscathed. They respond by sending out their glorious hero's of the people to smite the evil bourgeois attackers. A glorious victory is one as Capitalist forces fall back at every turn.
Meanwhile the evil capitalists regroup in their secret underground bunker at Area 51. The viewer discovers that the Capitalists have been studying and stealing technology from the alien proletariat for 50 years. They hatch a plan to infiltrate the proletariat mother ship and destroy it from the inside. Armed with bourgeois weapons and a computer hacker, Will Smith flies them into the heart of the people. The film infuses a bit of humor in here as they commit genocide on a massive scale against the proletariat aliens.
Back on earth, the Capitalists coordinate around the world to attack and destroy the landing craft in an effort to complete their genocide. After the Americans succeed in an overly dramatic victory, the world celebrates the slaughter of the proletariat and the protection of the greedy capitalist lifestyle.
Ratings:
Capitalist Slant: 7/10 While the capitalists take heavy losses, they are protrayed as glorious defenders of laissez-faire economic models dressed up as a defense of all humankind.
Proletariat Genocide 10/10 As every member of the alien proletariat is massacred. Including the little tentacle babies and mommies.
People's Recommendation: Avoid and denounce for the Capitalist Propaganda that it is!
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