“Dune: Part Two” Should Be a Warning Against Extremism — Not a Violent Spectacle

“Somebody help me,” a young Paul Atreides cries. He is gripped by a vision of the future in which charred corpses burn, and his soldiers wave his banner and slaughter innocents. “I see a holy war spreading across the universe like an unquenchable fire,” he kicks and screams. “A war in my name!” The young Atreides’s terror in the 2021 film Dune becomes reality in Dune: Part Two. On the surface...

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