Notes on Nationalism (1945)
Starship Troopers (1997) is an interesting movie that is basically a “war propaganda” movie seen from the viewpoint of a fascistic government. The whole point of the movie is to make the enemy seem like “the other” , and in this case these are actual alien bugs in the movie. All of the human characters in the movie are beautiful and everything on “our” side as we view it is shiny and “the good side”Paul Verhoeven also deliberately made the first scene shot for shot similar to a german Nazi propaganda film.The whole movie is to make you root for “our side” and demonize the other. I personally didn’t realize this fully when I watched it, which makes the process so insidious.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers