Take faith, for example. Americans are actually very conservative in this regard. No American leader is unreligious, or even divorced, because the old fellow Jehovah strictly forbids divorce. But as a film made by Americans, this film seems to be a positive and harmonious promotion of God's omnipotence, but it actually implies irony or even ridicule. Pray for God’s help, and the result is a robot. The implication here is not obvious-"Technology is God!"
Nietzsche said, God is dead, and since then, mankind has begun to worship science and technology as a new god.
In addition, a more nasty and insidious irony may not be seen by ordinary people. No one has ever seen God (the Bible says you can't look at him directly, you can't guess about him, let alone test him), then is God just a big bug with extremely advanced wisdom? The rape in the film can be said to be purer than any saint in history, but his stupidity and the final tragic ending are common to all. So this film implies a secret guess, maybe the true Jehovah is also a terrifying non-human being? In addition to being more beautiful, is there any essential difference between it and the big bug? Why should billions of humans worship God (I don’t know if this thing exists or not), but I can’t worship bugs?
As for the ending of the last paragraph, the irony is more and more explicit. The little boy's gesture of raising his hand to salute at the funeral can easily remind people of the same scene after Kennedy was assassinated. Kissing with the explosion of a planet as the background is even more blatant violent worship, and at the same time reiterated the worship of the technology god.
As for the film’s irony on the American political system and the anti-war, it’s more explicit, and everyone will discover it yourself.
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