Tag: paul verhoeven
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Robocop: Revisiting a Science Fiction Classic in Troubled Times
We look at Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 film, Robocop, to see how its political satire translates things like corporatization and police brutality in our modern times. Science fiction is often thought of as a genre that uses allegory to discuss the contemporaneous social, political, and cultural issues affecting the writer at the time. Rather than a…