• pyre@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    dude if someone wrote this for a movie people would say it’s too on the nose.

    moving to another country to avoid “indoctrination” is exactly what a movie character would do as a metaphor for inner struggle.

    being sent to die for a fascistic country would be the metaphor for the idea that running away from your self by finding refuge in reactionary attitudes inevitably kills you inside.

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      and him having a bunch of gay sex with fellow russian conscripts on the front lines is a metaphor for, uh… well its a metaphor