There is that, but the messaging is the opposite of a lot of these films, more Rambo films + slasher or Red Dawn than The Running Man or Total Recall or even Alien. It was for people who actually believed Reagan's bullshit about Latin America and the Caribbean, and were terrified of the Rasta alien.

What's revolutionary about Predator? It seems like more right-wing fear of third world or alien insurgency backed by the Soviet Union, an attack from without rather than a rottenness from within to be exposed for people to rise up with that information.

A good example, though Elon is on the record as saying basic income is inevitable and essential. Though that isn't what he did in Washington D.C. when he was brought in to an illegally created agency that did to America what he did to Twitter and worse.

Shining Resonance Refrain, maybe dig back to prior Shining games if they have the patience for older games.
Everything The Legend of Zelda.
Persona 5: Royal (I'm not convinced it deserves an M rating, and encountering it in adolescence may prove helpful).
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I-II

I'm not so persuaded of the dialectical inevitability of this state of affairs from the past to the present to the future. Give me a hypothetical time machine with the power to act upon key inflection points in the past, and I believe we might be living in a very different world.

It is that way now. I think in the 20th century there was more potential for enough agreement between members of the parties to pass legislation. That has increasingly not been the case ever since the Tea Party in 2010 did a Ship of Theseus move ousting almost every moderate Republican from office,

I think in The Running Man (original film) and Total Recall (original film), there's a subtext that in romance bridging the divide between the old America (Schwarzenegger's characters with thick Austrian accent) and the new America (the Latina heroine) is the preconditions for revolutionary changes.

2/2 The way he is drawn also resembles F.W. Murnau's Faust when the demon Mephistopheles casts a giant shadow over the town that symbolizes the plague descending upon it, much like mass extinctions under darkness are shown in "The Rite of Spring." "Ave Maria" reassures viewers humanity can survive.

1/2 There's a strong implication these are forces of evil in shots like the ghosts passing once more through the hangman's noose. The timing of release in 1940 suggests the dark tyrant is a metaphor for Hitler conducting a torch-lit Nuremberg Rally before he goes on the warpath on Walpurgis Night.

Technically, the tech guys already thought it would be amusing to name some of the energy bars they grab while refusing to take a break Soylent.