Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This movie is beautiful and entertaining, there is no denying that. However, the film presents the colonization of Arrakis as a backdrop for flashy fighting scenes. Any scene that might explore the effects of the colonization on the Fremen are glossed over and quickly forgotten. The film is a spectacle, so much so that any kind of political edge the narrative might have is obfuscated. Colonization is abstracted and present only in passing. For a story about a man who joins a decolonial fight against an empire, that’s quite the feat.