Starship Troopers falling in the vain of Satire and Sci-fi,
and being one of my favorite films pushed me to read the book that it was based
on. Surprising I found the book was a very similar movie in plot and theme. The
amount of metaphor and layers in this work in the commentary of fascist and totalitarian,
creating a plot that is almost secondary with that mount of meaning and metaphor
that exists throughout this work. This imagined universe is a world full of militarism
and people brainwashed to an ideology. Almost feeling like a story written by
such just such a society to push such indoctrination and ideology. Being so obviously
and aggressive in its themes is where the commentary and satire come into play.
The strongest points of this satire are in the descriptions of the combat, and
when it comes to how violence is handled. For in this violence you see the blatant
and aggressive nature of the fascist ideology being satirized. The aspects of
satire don’t covey as much in the literary version as it does in the film
adaptation. Either this is due to my rushed reading or it was the purpose in
the translation.
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