Sure, you COULD view them that way, by eating from the trash can of capitalist ideology without any awareness whatsoever. :zizek:

There's lots of stupid and destructive things you COULD do, especially if you are unaware of the harm being done.

If that's the movie I think it is, then it's kind of fucked that "I felt lied to!" came from a movie that suggested Imperial Russia was great and happy and everyone was fine in it until an evil magician started fucking around.