I literally watched it for the first time last week. It is actually pretty good, though yes still obviously American- but it is John Reed's life and I think did a decent job, though heavy on his life and relationship so not all communistic if that makes sense. Has Emma Goldman featured and her criticisms while in Russia, which I have my own opinions about, but then he goes on and basically said what I was thinking, though I do think it was still pandering more to her idealistic view and that kind of gaze generally throughout. It's long and a lot about him and his partner, so just be aware, but I recommend it.
The portrayal of the leftist millieu Reed and Bryant move around in Greenwich village near the beginning of the film is suggested as being mostly populated with downwardly mobile bourgeois dilletants who flitter between competing strands of thought like changing fashions.
I genuinely like it- Hollywood had a run in the late 70s and early 80s of really bloated, overlong prestige movies and this was one of the last of them, but if you have a few hours to spend it is pretty good. Warren Beatty had live interviews with real people spliced throughout which is pretty cool because it helps sort of shade in what is otherwise a historical drama (like Titanic) but based on historical figures. It's not perfect, but for the time it was made (and the times we are in now), it's solid. You can do a double feature and watch "October (Ten Days that Shook the World)" afterwards, which is based on the book Reed wrote during the Revolution.
Is Reds good? or is it Hollywood Lib shit
I literally watched it for the first time last week. It is actually pretty good, though yes still obviously American- but it is John Reed's life and I think did a decent job, though heavy on his life and relationship so not all communistic if that makes sense. Has Emma Goldman featured and her criticisms while in Russia, which I have my own opinions about, but then he goes on and basically said what I was thinking, though I do think it was still pandering more to her idealistic view and that kind of gaze generally throughout. It's long and a lot about him and his partner, so just be aware, but I recommend it.
Nice. When I first heard of it I could hardly believe it existed, let alone was nominated for best picture lol.
The portrayal of the leftist millieu Reed and Bryant move around in Greenwich village near the beginning of the film is suggested as being mostly populated with downwardly mobile bourgeois dilletants who flitter between competing strands of thought like changing fashions.
So it's very accurate.
I genuinely like it- Hollywood had a run in the late 70s and early 80s of really bloated, overlong prestige movies and this was one of the last of them, but if you have a few hours to spend it is pretty good. Warren Beatty had live interviews with real people spliced throughout which is pretty cool because it helps sort of shade in what is otherwise a historical drama (like Titanic) but based on historical figures. It's not perfect, but for the time it was made (and the times we are in now), it's solid. You can do a double feature and watch "October (Ten Days that Shook the World)" afterwards, which is based on the book Reed wrote during the Revolution.