Starship Troopers: while the source material was intended to be a leftist cautionary satire, the movie adaptation does an excellent job at portraying healthy nationalism in my opinion.
Are you sure you don't have this backwards? The movie seemed like yet another attempt by a Hollywood leftist to satirize extreme nationalists, but everyone in the audience was like "yeah that's awesome!" The book plays it straight and goes into great detail about how a society like that can effectively work.
He's got it right. It portrays it as awesome and badass, even though that wasn't the intention at all.
Also giving it the credit of just "extreme nationalists" is far too kind to Verhoeven. He literally meant it to be "America is fucking actual literal Nazis" the entire time.
Are you sure you don't have this backwards? The movie seemed like yet another attempt by a Hollywood leftist to satirize extreme nationalists, but everyone in the audience was like "yeah that's awesome!" The book plays it straight and goes into great detail about how a society like that can effectively work.
He's got it right. It portrays it as awesome and badass, even though that wasn't the intention at all.
Also giving it the credit of just "extreme nationalists" is far too kind to Verhoeven. He literally meant it to be "America is fucking actual literal Nazis" the entire time.