Not only do the Flesh and Blooders wear outfits which closely resemble Southern Confederate uniforms of the American civil war, but they routinely, and humorously refer to the robots as "clickers". The parrallel to real life race relations is not lost in translation.
Call me a racist, but I'm glad to be a Flesh and Blooder, it's the thing to be! Crazy clickers.
" Cristal, Beluga, Wolfgang Puck ... It's a fu*k house. "
The racial allegory wasn't exactly what you'd call subtle. I mean, with lines like, "All you clickers look alike to me!"
All the universe . . . or nothingness. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?
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Well, if the human race did not stop it's infighting to defeat the 'bots, then they deserved their coming extinction.
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Yes, I don't get babbettegillette's post. The humans shouldn't be fighting the robots -- the robots are acting in mankind's best interests by converting them into "clickers" so that the race can survive, albeit in a somewhat different form. It's the reactionary humans who want to fight the robots, and who, like most bigots, are too stupid and blind to realize that they're slitting their own throats that way.
The imagery in this film isn't subtle but it is clever and pointed. The OP says the Order of Flesh and Blood's uniforms look like Confederate uniforms, but what they really look like (and are patterned after) are the uniforms worn by Hitler's Brownshirts. That's also how the Order's members act -- like Nazis, not Rebs. And the term "clickers" is a really neat invention of the screenwriter, sounding so much like the infamous "n-word".
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For all the movie's faults on a technical level, its thematic content has aged remarkably well.
shareThe Flesh and Blooders were definitely right wing extremists. The whole concept, the exaltation of "flesh and blood", comes from Nazism. The "clickers" are progressives. It's not racial though, as humans and androids are not different races of the same species.
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