What I mean, obviously, is that it matters whether the movie portrays the government bad guys as being right or left wing. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but one of the ways the left advances its agenda is by slandering conservatives as fascist oppressors and by ginning up anger against its class enemies. That’s what I’m saying this film is doing. That’s why it matters. If you think this film is just an ideologically neutral warning against the general concept of totalitarianism, then you are awfully naive.
I haven’t seen it. But a non-political co-worker commented that she had and loved it. Then added that the notion that Obamacare can force everyone to buy insurance was like a beginning of the kind of government force portrayed in the movie. Hopefully there are alot of low-information citizens getting the same kind of messages from the film....
Dunno about the movie, but the book is quite neutral about the nature of the totalitarian government. All it is interested in is maintaining its power over the oppressed. As portrayed, it is very easy for readers/viewers to project whatever group they want upon the characters depicted: if you want to see the future of the Obama, so President Snow is; if you want that evil to be Bush and the Republicans, that’s what you’ll see; if you want your favored group depicted as evil by the author/director so you can demonize the latter, so be it.
Insofar as politics go, this story is a Roarshach test. You’ll see what you want there, and I’ve seen a lot of people want a broad spectrum.