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Trying to make sense of the themes in Villeneuve’s Dune movies. (hexbear.net)
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I rewatched Dune part 1, hoping to take away a better impression than I had when I saw it in theaters. Unfortunately I still don’t find much of value in it. I still need to rewatch part 2, and maybe that could still change my mind. But I’m not holding my breath.

In brief, Dune seems deeply misanthropic. The message is: the masses are irrational and easily duped by conniving populists that promise revolution. Simultaneously Horseshoe Theory and Great Man Theory. It is a diatribe against democracy and the intelligence of the underclasses.

Am I massively missing the point of this story? I have sought a Marxist analysis of these movies, and the ones I have found only ramble aimlessly the cleverness of Villeneuve for subverting the spaghetti-western hero trope and for being “self-aware” about Orientalist and colonial themes. As far as big-budget media goes, I think Andor is far more useful for leftist agitation than Dune could be.

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[–] sniper_culture@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Dune isn't really leftist I do t think, Herbert was a weirdo who opposed the Vietnam war but was a speech writer for Nixon at one point. I think if anything he was a libertarian writing about the danger of totalitarianism