E.g.: Don't get me started on "V for Vendetta" -- a psychological Trojan horse / poisoned chalice of mixed messages. A vigilante who's sort-of meant to be a good guy against a backdrop of an evil dictatorial state, goes around killing people and applying his own brutal tactics with zero due process. He kidnaps and imprisons the heroine to "toughen her up". They show this fake "crowd inspiration" thing with the anonymous masks. They throw in some church = paedophilia themes, and how the state oppresses gays, and all of that is meant to justify the whole Guy Fawkes + blow up parliament thing... To me that movie seemed really divisive, as if it was deliberately designed to burn bridges between the Baby Boomers and Gen Y, or whatever groups are likely to hold different political views.
Sorry, went a bit OT there, but there's my review
That's an interesting interpretation. And probably has merit to it. Rather than wander OT, maybe we should start a thread about propaganda in movies. There's a few other fairly recent ones I can think of off the top of my head.
