Overview
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."
And, of course, no one saw feminism as a common washing area and joint military service while maintaining heterosexual relationships and some manipulations to get a prize male.…
Heinlein's basic idea was distorted, to put it mildly, but in fact it was distorted, turning the earthly state into a fascist one ...
Otherwise, in fact, nothing better was shot based on this novel, so you can watch it, because at least some part of the atmosphere of the book is present + there is its own atmosphere of the film... If they were filming now, there would be no atmosphere of the book at all... so let's be glad that it was shot a long time ago and the Yankees haven't reshot it yet))
Continued (2 parts) They don't have a book base and their own atmosphere, too, so it's much worse than the 1st movie...
It is also known that Verhoeven wanted to create an "anti-fascist satire," but apparently the understanding of the essence of fascism was so lost that only external attributes remained: Aryan appearance, colors, symbols, etc. Therefore, in terms of meaning, it turned out neither this nor that ... the film does not look serious because of the caricature of its appearance, and it does not look like a satire, because the object of satire is lost somewhere behind the visual part.