Seen enough marvel shlock, want something that isn't subversive within a system but directly fights against it and loudly
Keep your negative takes out please I've had it with the irony poisoned doomerism of late
Seen enough marvel shlock, want something that isn't subversive within a system but directly fights against it and loudly
Keep your negative takes out please I've had it with the irony poisoned doomerism of late
If you want revolutionary-themed films, then the revolutionary film maker in both artistic and political sense is still Sergei Eisenstein. Lots of his work happened in the silent movie era and can be challenging to watch for modern viewers but I think it is worth the effort.
I can recommend The Strike (1925) about a strike in tsarist Russia and his more famous works The Battleship Potemkin (1925) about the mutiny and Alexander Nevsky (1938) that tells the story of the medieval Russian leader as an allegory for the fascist German invasion that was impending at the time.
I showed Battleship Potemkin to my young kids and they loved it. I’m trying to find the time to watch Ivan the Terrible. I was only able to see the opening scene but it was spectacular.
Agreed. And if you find them a bit tricky to get into quite a few have had great modern re-scores. Battleship has versions out there with alternate soundtracks done by the likes of The Pet Shop Boys and Nitin Sawhney.
Strike is amazing. Iirc the protagonist is the workers as a whole, not individuals, and it’s one of the few times police are portrayed as unequivocally bad and people fighting them as unequivocally good
I just watched 18 min into his docu-film October but there is an animal death in there, :( back then they didn’t have laws against that sort of stuff, so it’s probably real. Just something to watch out for if you decide to watch old films or October.