Basically like those advertisements shown in his earlier film Robocop, and to a more subtle extent practically the entire Total Recall film. But if you put any amount of effort looking at it, it becomes apparent that it’s a little too flamboyant, a little too happy with itself. Join the military, do your part, protect the Earth, etc. On the surface, it’s a military advertisement. The film begins in typical Verhoeven style, with a satirical advertisement. All to make a point that, in all honesty, I can’t say is entirely misguided. In fact, one could argue that the film was made for the purpose of critiquing just about everything the novel stands for, and doing it in a way that misrepresents and strawmans the source material itself. Both were made for entirely different reasons. The film isn’t very much like the novel itself.
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