Re: [Marxism] Paradise Now

[guava tree <theguavatree@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had issues with Paradise Now: the problem with this film is that it
explained suicide bombing in the context of an oedipal, father/son family
struggle and thus minimized the social, political, living-in-hell etiology
of these bombers. there are some shots of palestinian poverty and
checkpoints, but nothing that makes you scream "Do Something!" "Fight Back!"
---sort of reminds me of soderberg's "che" -- how if you were an alien from
outerspace and watched this film you wouldn't really know why he's fighting
in the jungle and then bolivia; the filmmaker fails to show why society was
so rotten that a revolution was necessary. The exact opposite of this
approach is "Soy Cuba" and "Battleship potemkin"


On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A Palestinian movie about suicide bombers.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gkvj30aNiE
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