We're all too old, and games suck too much ... but still
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Other than the Neo Nazi part the rest of the film is a pretty good surrealisation of modernity. D-FENS is supposed to be portrayed as a "bad guy", but some of the tells was a bit ahead of its time in actually incidentally painting him as the actual victim.
It turns out he WASN'T actually abusive to his emotionally fragile wife -- a wife (or rather, ex-wife) who used those emotions to ruin his life and prevent him from seeing his child.
He was good at his job until he was considered "Not Economically Viable", which was basically a euphemism for today's outsourcing of work in Occidental nations to third-world street shytters.
The city planning had designed roads to make commuting terrible all while making it difficult to maintain a vehicle to commute
Gangs and violence ran rampant, and despite their prevalence and terrorism, the police force still [poorly] utilised its manpower to hunt down a guy who was simply fed up instead of the animals that were decaying society.
There were arbitrary rules about consumerism that made no sense just to force people under anarcho tyranny -- even when he was willing to pay for products in earnest (i.e., people willing to PAY for physical goods at MSRP yet not being able to do so due to corporate licencing or removal of products for no discernible reason).
The movie basically was way ahead of its time. While some of those issues were cropping up in the West back in the 80s and 90s, they are completely in your face today, much like how the woke society of Demolition Man can almost be seen as a documentary of today's trends.
I felt the same way about Gerard Butler’s character in law abiding citizen. Epic film about a man on a crusade against the scumbag who raped and murdered his family, along with the corrupt cops, DA and judge who let the fucker get off lightly.
Phenomenal film until it starts throwing “revenge bad” at you in the final act and expects you to somehow root for the corrupt legal system instead.
Exactly. It's kind of like this in a lot of media -- American History X is another. They really wanted you to root against him until he turned "colourblind", but anyone paying attention would recognise he was right about his beliefs and the facts!
They also tried portraying Scott Glenn's character as evil in Deadly Exeuction Cop/Extreme Justice, throwing in the swerve near the end to undermine how his team was actually getting results on the streets. It's funny because it made Lou Diamond Philips' character come across as a proto-woke warrior as the film went on, but it's basically Hollywood's way of undermining extra-judicial behaviour at the expense of a corrupt system.
They did the same thing with Soldier Boy in The Boys. They basically said, "Look, Soldier Boy is a Chud! He's a racist bigot! He's evil... right? ....Right?!?!?!" and he turned out to be the most popular character in the whole series because in trying to make him a "stubborn racist bigot!" they just made him based and right!
Rorschach in The Watchmen
Ozymandius is an idealistic terrorist, and the normie Watchmen just give up because it's easer in the penultimate chapter then in the final chapter live normie idyllic suburban lives.
For as far as I can recall, Rorschach seems to be the start of this trend in popular media -- I'm sure it may have happened in a previous novel or film (I suppose an argument could be made for Albert Camus' Meursault in The Stranger, but I don't ever hear anyone talk about that in broader circles).
...But Moore is the first author I know of who went on record basically admitting he tried to make Rorschach a parody of Conservatism, but he just ended up making him based... and right.
It was also filmed while the Rodney King riots were occurring, and we all know King fought the cops after leading them on a high speed chase while intoxicated on PCP and alcohol, even though he shouldn't have been driving at all since his licsense was REVOKED - not suspended, but actually REVOKED - for multiple instances of chronic driving while intoxicated and reckless endangerment, during which he nearly killed 2 police officers by nearly running over them, and the 2 passengers in his vehicle weren't beaten because they didn't assault the officers when the vehicle was finally stopped.
The poetic justice is even though he bought a micromansion with the ill-gotten lawsuit money he drowned in the swimming pool while high on PCP.
I never watched Demolition Man. I guess I'll put that on while I'm sorting files for this local business website today. Tht really doesn't pay the way it used to because first everyone just posted on Facebook with some Twitter and Instagram links, then it was WordPress and Wix from a foreigner on Fivver, and now it's just an "AI" app. But some people don't know how to promote, so it's still there if you have connections.