RoboCop

Can’t have shit in Detroit. An endlessly cool as fuck and relentlessly brutal 80s political satire, critical of the power that big corporations have over the public with large brutalist set pieces that represent the sheer power and scale of these corporations, and a film of which is so terrifyingly ahead of its time that it’s not even funny. We’re presented with a man who tries his best to protect society, only to then lose his humanity to a soulless corporation. The themes presented are still as relevant today as they were almost half a century ago, was Reagan’s America any different to that of Trump’s America?