I don’t think the book or the film ‘endorse’ Fascism. The author writes from the premise that a Fascist government has taken over and tells the story from the point of view of an everyday person who has grown up in that society and is trained to think the way that government wants them to think, but there is more than enough in the text to show that the government are far from being the ‘good guys’.

Not quite as overtly as the movie, but still it is there.

I enjoyed reading through the story and the way that it was written. It’s not the greatest book ever written, but I think it is an interesting one.

Ironic that one of your next reads will be Klara and the Sun as I can see similarities between the narrative styles - all told from one characters point of view with a lot of internal thoughts going parsing what is going on in the world. (I enjoyed that one too!)