It was still propaganda as the "villains" were portrayed as right wing.
The "freedoms" being repressed were homosexuality and the koran. And the "world of oppression" was made up of happy white families who's only sin was being oblivious to the activities of the secret police thanks to the right wing media.
In fact, that movie is likely responsible for the caricature of "right-wing-fascists" that the left believes to this day, as many of them have held up this movie and guy fox masks as the very ideology they are supposedly fighting for: To prevent the evil conservatives from creating that world where everyone was middle class.
Even if you pointed this all out to a liberal, they would just claim that it's exactly what would have happened if Trump had not been stopped. This liberal totalitarian world was all to prevent the evil right wing one from the movie, and so they continue to support everything that is happening.
"Remember when Trump tried to kick out a reporter for assaulting a woman? That was totally the same thing as the movie."
They already view "Alt-Right Media" as the evil state puppets controlling the minds of conservatives because that's what their "free and fair" media told them to think.
I hadn't seen the movie myself, but this is what I'd heard from multiple reviews at the time. I really wanted nothing to do with being portrayed as being the bad guy in a movie just for living my life in private.
It does not actually come across as uberly-woke. In fact many conservatives are a little taken aback when I point it out. For the most part it's a corrupt dystopian world very much like we find ourselves in now. The powers in control are clearly corrupt and vile people who do not practice what they preach. Many conservatives glossed over the fact that an ignorant leftist would see that and think "That's exactly what a white Christian world would be like!!!" as we thought it was obvious they were not at all "conservative."
Most people (myself included) simply thought it was a good portrayal of corruption and deception taking over society through media control, and enriching themselves while erasing dissent from history and disappearing anyone who went against the party narrative.
I would even classify it as a good movie. Really, it's masterfully done propaganda as it seems to be purely about good vs evil. The "right wing" dictator gives Stalinist vibes in a system of control that would rival the CCP. But where a logically minded adult would recognize those evils for what they are, we were oblivious to how easily the emotionally driven mind would simply attach those evils to the false rhetoric used in the movie and later mirrored on the actual news.
Like, knowing everything you know now, if you watched it, those parts would stand out. At the time it came out, it didn't seem preachy at all and blended in to the level of woker-y that was going on everywhere. Instead of being obviously cringe and focused on the global warming narrative of the day, it was about a 1984esque controlled society with well written dialogue and a complex plot. Many of us knew the world was actually headed that way, and most conservatives knew the media was already a bundle of lies.
Honestly it's impressive how well it straddled the line between the two sides so that people saw two very different movies.
Yup watched it a few weeks back again. Didn't realize that whoever made the movie was from the future.
It was still propaganda as the "villains" were portrayed as right wing.
The "freedoms" being repressed were homosexuality and the koran. And the "world of oppression" was made up of happy white families who's only sin was being oblivious to the activities of the secret police thanks to the right wing media.
In fact, that movie is likely responsible for the caricature of "right-wing-fascists" that the left believes to this day, as many of them have held up this movie and guy fox masks as the very ideology they are supposedly fighting for: To prevent the evil conservatives from creating that world where everyone was middle class.
Even if you pointed this all out to a liberal, they would just claim that it's exactly what would have happened if Trump had not been stopped. This liberal totalitarian world was all to prevent the evil right wing one from the movie, and so they continue to support everything that is happening.
"Remember when Trump tried to kick out a reporter for assaulting a woman? That was totally the same thing as the movie."
They already view "Alt-Right Media" as the evil state puppets controlling the minds of conservatives because that's what their "free and fair" media told them to think.
I hadn't seen the movie myself, but this is what I'd heard from multiple reviews at the time. I really wanted nothing to do with being portrayed as being the bad guy in a movie just for living my life in private.
It does not actually come across as uberly-woke. In fact many conservatives are a little taken aback when I point it out. For the most part it's a corrupt dystopian world very much like we find ourselves in now. The powers in control are clearly corrupt and vile people who do not practice what they preach. Many conservatives glossed over the fact that an ignorant leftist would see that and think "That's exactly what a white Christian world would be like!!!" as we thought it was obvious they were not at all "conservative."
Most people (myself included) simply thought it was a good portrayal of corruption and deception taking over society through media control, and enriching themselves while erasing dissent from history and disappearing anyone who went against the party narrative.
I would even classify it as a good movie. Really, it's masterfully done propaganda as it seems to be purely about good vs evil. The "right wing" dictator gives Stalinist vibes in a system of control that would rival the CCP. But where a logically minded adult would recognize those evils for what they are, we were oblivious to how easily the emotionally driven mind would simply attach those evils to the false rhetoric used in the movie and later mirrored on the actual news.
Like, knowing everything you know now, if you watched it, those parts would stand out. At the time it came out, it didn't seem preachy at all and blended in to the level of woker-y that was going on everywhere. Instead of being obviously cringe and focused on the global warming narrative of the day, it was about a 1984esque controlled society with well written dialogue and a complex plot. Many of us knew the world was actually headed that way, and most conservatives knew the media was already a bundle of lies.
Honestly it's impressive how well it straddled the line between the two sides so that people saw two very different movies.