Way before its time.....

America is becoming a strange and disturbing combination of this movie and Demolition Man.

Seriously...how long until America has kiosks you can walk up to, pay a dollar, and be told how they inspire joy! joy! feelings in everyone they meet?

Socialism : The Future Is Clear, Its The Past That Is Always in Motion

Before its time? You mean 'ahead of its time'?

Steve Bannon, is that you?

The worst thing about America today is all the kind of white people who truly and deeply believe that nobody deserves anything good but themselves, and that people who aren't as white and straight as they are not only don't deserve any kind of good job, but any sign of prosperity in a POC is against the natural order and must have been due to cheating! But it's actually these angry white people who are the lawless ones, with their meth and opiate epidemic and guns, their mass murder guns sprees and coup attempts, their voting against social services they need themselves because someone who isn't native-born white might benefit, they are dragging society down with their selfishness and stupidity.

And it's all right here in this film, a white man sneering at a changing society and thinking of it as lawless and degenerate, while he's the one out there on a crime spree.

It really wasn't ahead of it's time. It's a well written product of issues happening in the 90's.

What's interesting about D-Fens is that he goes from being someone you agree with who becomes a villian. When he's confronted by a more extreme person who misconstrued his purpose as something greater that initially intended he becomes a murderer. D-FENS is looking for home and safety, but he becomes dangerous in the end. Especially to the ones he loves.

This happens a lot in history. A valid issue drives someone to stand up, but go to far.

Prendergast is the opposite. A man with useful skills and understanding who's ready to give up serving the public because he's lost so much. He was handicapped by his love of his wife and ridiculed for being a genuinely good man who didn't even swear regularly. When he saw how he was needed, he put his wife in her place, stood up to the mocking of his peers and went to protect D-Fens' family. He even tried to stop D-Fens because he knew there was a better way. Both men were basically thrown away. While one tried to make things better, he became a monster. The other tried to stay away from these issues, but put the safety of others above himself and made a difference.

These two are great characters.