I’m sick and tired of it all and I can’t take no more!
So this Saturday, I’m going to sit on the couch and do NOTHING, I’m all emotionally drained, I’ve set aside some additional emergency supplies (and ammo) and it feels like there’s little more positive I can do (and yes we’ve increased our donations and set them to be monthly recurring to the ACLU).
So now I’m going to engage in a visual marathon of seeing the Fascists get their comeuppance.
I’m going to start with the movie V for Vendetta, which I mentioned as a good parable for the modern American dystopia in another thread, followed by the Ahhhhnold feature The Running Man, which I nominated for the same role after the November election. Both have elements of actual hope that something better will be found after the disaster. But I’ve been increasingly nihilistic about our future, so I think I’ll finish with a pair of “Watch the World Burn” sort, with a Snake Plisken Double feature Escape from New York/L.A..
Somehow, I suspect this will NOT be the last time I sink to this escapism / ironic enjoyment, so feel free to suggest movies for future marathons, or ones you want to indulge in yourselves.
[ side note - Idiocracy often comes up these sorts of threads, but at least some of the people there are actually trying, and even if not, are by the premise too stupid to know better, they aren’t fascists or enablers. ]
You might try Land and Freedom, the Ken Loach film about the Spanish Civil War. La Commune (Paris, 1871), by Peter Watkins is great, but the long version runs nearly 6 hours, so you risk getting a bad case of cinema buns if you don’t take a break or two.
Oh yes, I’ve been intending to watch this one for various reasons, but never seem to actually get around to doing so.
I kinda agree and kinda don’t. It is a great send up of capitalism’s tendency to damn everything in search of profit, and it’s close, but just a bit shy of what I’m looking for. Doesn’t mean it isn’t great to watch, and I do so at least every other year… Hmmm.
It’s not easy to watch (some powerful scenes that will make most squirm) but, I think, worth seeing. I have a few quibbles with the movie but still recommend it.
Great movie but is it one where fascists get their comeuppance? It takes place in Franco’s Spain, her dad is a part of it (I think). It’s been a while since I have seen it though so I may be remembering it wrong.
Well, as the saying does, we may have lost the war(s), but we had all the good songs. And in these films the spirit of resistance lives on, so that’s an anti fascist lesson and warning, if not catharsis.
30 years ago a publisher suggested we could use a book on the post-world war 2 era titled, “So you thought the fascists lost the war.” I wish I’d written it and was working on the second edition.
Where Eagles Dare, 1968. Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood killin’ Nazis, killin’ Nazis and then then going out and killin’ some more Nazis. A brutal, satisfying action flick.