In the 1970s and '80s he produced a number of popular action films that explored the same themes of corruption, environmental degradation, and social inequality as did many fiction writers of the period.
Bolkovac's experiences gave Kondracki a framework for the film and added the themes of corruption and wide-scale cover-ups.
"CIA has always been an easy target for filmmakers looking to exploit themes of corruption and conspiracy in high places," a CIA review of 2015's Sicario said.
His characters are often emotionally disturbed and morally ambiguous, facing the fears and anxieties of loneliness, guilt, jealousy, and greed; in addition to the larger themes of corruption and conspiracy.
To make matters worse, the Obama campaign's recent ads attacking Mitt Romney's robber-baron tactics with Bain Capital more than 20 years ago have alienated Libertarians of all stripes by regurgitating tired Democratic themes of corruption and economic inequity in the capital markets.
South Korea's far more vibrant civil society successfully introduced the theme of fighting corruption in politics into the most recent legislative elections with a similar blacklist movement.
Jay P. Telotte, writing in the book Science Fiction Film credited the film with exploring the theme of political corruption.
Theorist Douglas Kellner saw the series as a critical allegory about the Bush-Cheney era, highlighting the theme of government corruption and failure to solve social problems, as well as the cinematic spectacle and iconography related to 9/11.
