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Yes, silent, passive and understatedly implied approval is the most powerful tool of any dictatorship. In the beginning, Nazi-Germany didn't force towns and city states to mercy-kill their invalids, intellectually-retarded and disfigured persons, they merely stayed comfortably silent as the first cases passed by and more followed. Same with lynching of homosexuals in Africa.
I love Verhoeven's random, overacting characters, though. The cackling lady is both scary and hilarious to me, and I would easily vote for this man to join the Supreme Court, if possible. No, Whip in the House of Lords.
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I always did like the ending when Robocop shoots the executive after he's been fired, and the head of Omnicorp says, "Nice shooting son, what's your name?"
"Murphy."
And the credits roll
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