http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/ ... in-common/
Add to that the new Rainbow Six game.
The occupy movement, anonymous and Julian Asange. We're getting a resurgence of "
The Western Terrorist" in games and movies. Except this time, the western terrorist is not a 'turncoat' or a white supremacist or PETA member, but from the Occupy movement or other movements which signal a challenge to long assumed hierachies and distributions of power and money.
With regards to Black Ops II and the new Rainbow Six, this is just lazy military shooter writing. They need a baddie that seems vaguely plausible and references current events. The baddie is necessarily violent (explosives strapped to bankers) because the games are necessarily violent.
What stands out about this, though, is that these mil. shooters usually go for a clear 'Other' in which to invest fear to drive the narrative. Ruskies, Arabs, Koreans; all these do the job of being a feared unknown Other. What seems surprising is that there is enough mileage in founding fear in the Occupy movement. I think all it may prove is that change remains a source of fear (especially if said change is revolutionary, even if that revolution may be beneficial) that can easily be tapped.
This is all very separate from the themes of surveillance that ran through TDK. Watching that film makes me realise that Nolan's assertion that he's 'not political' is simply the assertion of someone who is (everyone is) but whose politics are so un-thought-through as to default to "small c" conservitism. Batman's use of mass surveillance couldn't have been more wasted as a point of critique (note: critique not criticism) for surveillance as a response to terrorism.
Whoever you vote for, the government wins.
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