I’m having a some problems with the 2017 version. Specifically, the conversion from modern liberal democracy to complete, totalitarian theocracy seemed way too abrupt. I laughed at the scene where all women suddenly found out they’d all lost their jobs and bank accounts-- and how casually the characters took this news (“I just lost all my civil rights and property. Oh, well…”).
And, the sound design is getting a little repetitious: every time it shows a black-uniformed militia officer there is, without fail, the Brrrrssshh insert random police radio chatter Brrrssshh. We get it. It’s a police state.
Also in the 2017 version, they made the choice to drop the white racism. It’s highly unlikely a strident religious police state is going to go as multicultural as is depicted. Yet they did retain the antisemitism; it’s never brought up, but in the background of one scene there’s a hanged man marked a star of David. I understand why they probably made these choices, but it seems a little schizophrenic.
