RE: [Marxism] request for political film suggestions

["Lil Joe" <joe_radical@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think Shindler's List (sp) is also good, because it shows, not
just the brutality and inhumanity of Nazism and war but that
War is 'good for business', how German capitalists benefited
from Nazi policy and war related industries, and that the
Nazis ultimately worked for the capitalists rather than the
reverse - Nazism was a historical process rooted in the
objective contradictions of capitalism and not the product of
a "crazed dictator".

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Also interesting because of the personal political choices is raises is
"The Music Box" with Jessica Lange.  Roughly based on the Demjamjuk
(sp?) case, it portrays a lawyer (Lange) who defends her father in a
deportation trial for alleged crimes against humanity in WW II Hungary.
She believes his innonence --he *is* her dad, after all-- but there is
more to the story than she believed. Does she look into it?  What if he
really was a Nazi war criminal?  Should she --can she-- turn in her own
dad?  What does she tell her young son? What would we do?

Come to think about it, those two films shown together in that order
raise similar and related questions about those who "just carry out
orders" around the world.


Beyond that I would suggest:

-- "Black Shack Alley"  (French-language film set in early 20th C.
Martinique about the structural blocks that prevent the poor from
pulling ahead; the myth that it;s lack of individual effort that keeps
the poor poor)

- "A Dry White Season" -- Set in Apartheid South Africa, follows a white
school teacher's transition from obliviousness ["if the police stopped
him, he must've done *something*"] to a commitment to social change)

-- "Controlling Interest" a 1970s documentary on corporate domination of
US government and foreign policy.  A bit dated but will strike a chord
with the whole Halliburton/KBR thing these days.

- Juan










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