I recently watched michael bay's transformers (in which its budget itself is probably the GDP of Samoa)
and i cant help but draw parallels from this epic with the Cold War
The autobots and decepticons essentially represent the two massive super powers, the U.S. and the soviet union
whilst the humans are depicted as weak, near-useless representatives of a proxy nation in a proxy war in which the earth is the battleground
the transformers much like America and the soviet union have technology unmatched by the humans
they deal most of the damage and generally wreak havoc
whilst the humans are pretty shit, always divided and squabbling amongst each other about who makes the decisions (aka communist rule vs capitalist rule)
-have inferior and superfluous technology
but generally they serve their part and make some small contribution in the end due to sheer numbers and guerrilla tactics much like the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War
another factor that substantiates my claim is that where ever the two super powers fight, they cause a shit load of damage, the transformers movie neglects to reveal how many people really die from these colossal battles, if they were shown, the movie would easily be r18+
similarly if we compared the transformers battling with the conflicts that occurred in the cold war in both korea and vietnam, we can see the massive damage the superpowers inflicted during the proxy wars both economically and socially to the proxy country.
but as always since transformers is a hollywood film, America (autobots) triumphs over the evil decepticons (soviet union)
And optimus prime makes some epic speech that justifies all the violence they have enacted at the expense of their human allies.
once again, we can draw this from America's staunch belief that they entered various countries during the cold war in an attempt to save the people and protect them from oppression, when really it was to stem the spread of communism (defeat decepticons)
TRANSFORMERS, COLD WAR IN DISGUISEwhy
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