I wonder how that would have influenced our current situation in the US.

  • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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    3 years ago

    Is Death of Stalin good? Like, as a communist, is it going to leave me seething with rage, or is it something that kinda avoids actual political shit and can be laughed at?

    • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      It's propaganda, and it makes Stalin uniquely evil, centers around making :corn-man-khrush: look good. Recurring joke throughout the film are people being executed, at one point they're in the middle of a purge with firing squads, they get a phone call to halt the purge and stop executing mid-session.

      Go into it with a very critical mindset and you'll find it does have some stellar humor and performances topped off by an amazing cast.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Highly recommended. It's about as accurate as a cast of mostly Americans not even doing accents. The setting is just window dressing for a really good dark comedy.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I didn't find it all that funny but I'm not a comedy movie sort of person. I found absolutely nothing wrong with it politically, though. Any unfair inaccuracies are clearly jokes.

    • Gosplan14 [any]
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      3 years ago

      It's lib af, but it's a decent enough movie with some good funny scenes

    • RedArmor [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It’s a good movie if you are a no nothing liberal.

      The Left Media Podcast has an episode with Proles of the Round Table that is good at breaking down the inaccuracies, lies, and liberal propaganda of it. It’s a funny movie if you look at it from “office politics” way but I can’t stand how they do my boi Stalin in it. Worth at least one watch.