[Marxism] Loose Change

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

This month the Village Voice reviewed a number of made-for-the-Internet 
movies about 9/11 in tandem with the opening of Oliver Stone?s ?World Trade 
Center.? One film stands out:

22-year-old director Dylan Avery of Oneonta, New York, has emerged as the 
hot young star of the skeptic set with his 2005 ?tude-filled feature Loose 
Change. Avery claims in a recent Vanity Fair profile that he?s received 
over 50,000 orders for the Loose Change DVD and over 10 million viewings 
online, and says he?s in talks with a number of studios to release an 
updated cut of the film on September 11, 2006. His name frequently pops up 
in Technorati?s daily list of most searched-for keywords, and his MySpace 
profile boasts over 3,500 friends. By mainstream media standards, Loose 
Change remains ultra?low budget, but with Avery?s casual, no-nonsense 
voiceover, tight editing, and hip-hop DJ?d score, it?s by far the most 
accomplished and accessible example of 9-11 Truth cinema, though not free 
of the questionable fact-sourcing practiced by its peers (most egregious: 
?According to Wikipedia . . . ?).

As an amateur film reviewer with a keen interest in ?diy? (do it yourself) 
productions, I made a mental note to myself to watch ?Loose Change.? I also 
wanted see what this ?movement? amounts to, even though I have very deep 
aversions to any sort of conspiracy theory. It has even reached the point 
where I am ready to argue that Lee Harvey Oswald was really a commie after 
all. Remember that famous picture of him with a rifle in one hand and the 
Trotskyist Militant newspaper in the other? Maybe his true intention was to 
shoot anybody who refused to take out a subscription, an urge I had to 
suppress when I was assigned the thankless task of heading up sub drives 
for this sectarian newspaper more than 30 years ago.

full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/09/01/loose-change/


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