File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9905, message 404


From: "ben blumson" <autumnsprung-AT-freemail.com.au>
Subject: re: In search of leftist humor
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:19:33 +1000


I stayed for three months in Paris with a Maoist film lecturer. This meant I saw a lot of films with her and i didn't find the commentry to bad, then again i may not have noticed from the french- she said that- A la place du couer- was an unoriginal story but never seemed to mention imperialism-
the only time i may have pissed her off was probly when i told her that marxism in australia was a joke (thinking of t he guys that seel the socialist workers paper on friday arvo).
she didn't talk much about politics then.
thankfully i survived despite nine oclock bed times and it was worth it for the films- id recomend la contre du brazil (sp?).
cheers
Ben

At 1999-05-14 06:37:46.284000, 
"Brian J. Callahan" (Brian=J.=Callahan%MT%DFCI-AT-EYE.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU) wrote:
> >Believe me, I'm not making this up.
> >Maoist International Movement reviews Patch Adams
> That was good, but this is even funnier (from a MIM review of 
> Welcome to the 
> Dollhouse):
> 
>    The movie is most effective as a case study in alienation, shot 
> in a
>    fitting, low-budget realistic style. Youth from the oppressor 
> nations
>    are property, playthings for adults, and deposits for genocidal
>    disinformation. When MIM says age is the principal contradiction
>    within the white nation, we mean that young people such as Dawn 
> and
>    her peers are the best bets for revolutionary consciousness, 
> partly
>    because they are not yet dug in to their class, nation and 
> gender
>    positions of privilege, and partly because of the oppressive 
> treatment
>    they receive at the hands of adults. Welcome to the Doll House 
> brings
>    some of this contradiction to light.
> 
> 
>  Apparently, I missed a lot about this movie--I totally missed the 
> "deposits 
> for genocidal disinformation" theme.  Just goes to show ya: always 
> bring a 
> Maoist to the movies.


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