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| | |(''Not for children'') - This German-language film is a stinging criticism of [[Communist]] [[East Germany]] from a liberal perspective. Taking place in 1984 East Berlin about a secret police agent. One of the most powerful portrayals of life in the modern surveillance state and the corrupt motives of socialist bureaucrats. | | |(''Not for children'') - This German-language film is a stinging criticism of [[Communist]] [[East Germany]] from a liberal perspective. Taking place in 1984 East Berlin about a secret police agent. One of the most powerful portrayals of life in the modern surveillance state and the corrupt motives of socialist bureaucrats. |
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| − | |(not for children) Unlike the mainstream ''X-Men'' films, which focus on the struggle of mutants to gain acceptance in the world (similar to homosexual rights), Hugh Jackman's final appearance as Logan/Wolverine takes on a much more personal and realistic tone, Logan being by far the most human mutant portrayed in the movies. With mutants on the brink of extinction, Logan's healing factor beginning to fail him, and the metal coating his skeleton now poisoning him, Logan has been reduced to working as a limo chauffeur to care for an ailing Charles Xavier. He is also binging on alcohol far more than ever before, much to the chagrin of fellow mutant Caliban. He reluctantly agrees, at the behest of a nurse named Gabriela, to escort Laura, a young girl and clone-daughter of Logan, to "Eden," a safe haven (and reference to the location of the birth of mankind) for mutant children who were born within the walls of Transigen, a biomedical company that had illegally used the DNA of mutants, including Logan, to create cloned children whom they turned into soldiers.
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| | Unfortunately, the movie ended up an early victim of Disney's turn towards leftism in later years by being banned from getting rereleases outside of pirated editions, presumably due to various race-baiting actions by people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson by falsely implying the movie was inherently racist. | | Unfortunately, the movie ended up an early victim of Disney's turn towards leftism in later years by being banned from getting rereleases outside of pirated editions, presumably due to various race-baiting actions by people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson by falsely implying the movie was inherently racist. |
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| − | |Has the deuteragonist be a humble small town cop while the antagonist is an arrogant self-important (to the extreme) elitist doctor from the federal government. Also, the cop's sister-in-law, a sort of minor antagonist, may be a feminist (she appears to have left her husband and taken her daughter with her) and was always telling his wife to divorce him and she ultimately was left tied up and forgotten (by mistake) when she was going to turn the cop in to the federal government (he had punched the elitist Dr. Robotnik to keep him from capturing Sonic and was now hunted by the government.). Also, the protagonist, Sonic, while immature, is fairly self-sufficient, having lived alone on earth for a decade after being separated from his guardian Longclaw as a child. Sonic, who was told by the well-meaning Longclaw to live away from others so that they capture him to get to his powers, finally learns to face his problems and stop running. (However, it should be noted that there was one scene, while Sonic and the cop were on the run, they got into a barfight and, though they won it, Sonic made a remark , as they were fleeing, that he wasn't sure if they paid their tab and seemed to think it was funny, and stealing isn't cool. It is antics like this, though somewhat understandable for a character from another planet who suffered from loneliness and was never trained how to properly behave on earth as he lived alone for a decade, that make the protagonist a less-than-ideal role model for children.)
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| | |''The Sons of Katie Elder'' | | |''The Sons of Katie Elder'' |