We can expect they typically remain unresolved, and so they are in a state of indecision, which in turn causes inaction. (Those that would easily accept dishonor are not listening, perhaps having already deserted.) These are strong and contradictory emotions soldiers have them swirling through them. But they also do not want to live at any cost they do not want to live a scurrilous, dishonorable life. One needs to understand the psychological situation of the audience: soldiers facing a dangerous action, who have some idea of the danger and have consequent fear for their lives. The issue is not so much the meaning then, but what is the effect intended by the speaker? The utterance is a rhetorical question, though, which is doubly evident since it has a false premise: every adult knows he can't live forever, and so has no such choice. Rico's military career progresses from recruit, to non-commissioned officer, and finally to officer, against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an insectoid species known as Arachnids.The meaning of the utterance itself is (of course) quite clear: he is asking if you do or do not want to have your life go on forever (or as clear as forever or infinity can be to us). Starship Troopers follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry, a futuristic military unit. Yikes! Will the real proto-fascists please stand up?
And yet, many fans have championed its fascist ethos at face value.
It’s a movie meant to make you sick to your stomach - to set off all kinds of alarm bells. Director Paul Verhoeven has called it the most expensive art film ever made - a movie that ostensibly looks on the surface like any other big summer action film, but one that intentionally baits and switches over and over again. Starship Troopers (1997) is an unlikely blockbuster - divisive by design.
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