Child soldiers? Live and die for the empire, they’re doing their part :im-doing-my-part:
Needless violence for the sake of violence? Hell yeah brother that’s the good shit :le-pol-face:
it doesn’t work. Anyone with fascist potential will look at whatever “Genocide Bad Guy The Metaphor Is Literally Spelled Out For You Armada” and think they’re fucking sick. You’re giving the fascists material.
IMO, if you really want to satirize fascism, hit them where it hurts: they are fucking incompetent buffoons who act like they’re god’s chosen race because they have no positive qualities besides the promised intrinsic ones.
Never actually seen it but that sounds based
More spoilers for the end
The idea of fascist masculinity is a major theme in the movie. The Commander insists that his unborn child is a son despite having no way of knowing. He tells a romanticized narrative about his father involving his watch, which he checks constantly throughout the film. He makes his dying wish with an air of faux dignity and the last words he hears are “No. He won't even know your name.”
It’s well worth a watch, if you don’t mind reading subtitles. It tells the story of the Spanish civil war from the perspective of a young girl mixed in with her own fantasy world, and it’s a beautiful movie despite being hard to watch from sadness