I have a few movies I wanna watch that are vaguely lefty. BUT, western movies rarely have good things to say or portray about leftist societies. A few that come to mind to watch are Goodbye Lenin, The Trotsky and Reds. Idk if these are critical of leftists or not but why not watch them and review them at a later point. I watched Red Dawn recently and man I had a lot to say about it. I guess part of what I’m saying is, is this community dying or not, bc if not I’d be willing to do weekly or biweekly movie reviews(biweekly as in, twice a week, not to be confused with the word biweekly meaning once every two weeks,English is confusing lol) if this community is dead, then I guess I’ll find out one way or another🤣 BTW: not to advertise or anything cringe but I like using the JustWatch app for keeping track of my watchlist and seeing where to watch these for free depending on which app or service has it or not, worst case scenario a friend TOTALLY DOESN’T PIRATE IT for me and I “find out a way to watch it quick”
Sorry To Bother You is a fun one, other than that I would recommend some Soviet made films. Stalker and Stellaris by Tarkovsky are great, even if he did leave the Soviet Union later on his works still carry a non-western approach. Come and See is also really good but extremely depressing. Best war movie there is.
As much as I usually stan Soviet cinema, I would also advise caution - especially with the late Soviet “visionaries” like Tarkovsky. At least some of them went on to publicly smear USSR and communism in general, and this position is visible even in their older works.
To not be empty worded - Eldar Ryazanov, famous for his comedies (i.e. Irony of Fate), has also supported Yeltsin, decried KPSS as being same as NSDAP, and later in life lamented how all Russians are lazy and stupid.
I will still support watching Soviet cinema, of course. Useful for the mind. Perhaps try Circus
I looked up Circus and the plot is beautiful❤️
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Trumbo – Bryan Cranston plays Dalton Trumbo, communist filmmaker who overcame and aided in destroying the Hollywood Blacklist. Epic movie, says fuck John Wayne and shows him for the fascist piece of shit he was.
They Live is one that even reactionaries like. It has a high degree of repeatability due to it’s veiled nature. It doesn’t go into Marxist rhetoric, it simply shows truth in capitalism, truth many see but are uneducated and brainwashed so their ability to understand explicit films is limited. Regardless, it is still enjoyable even as an educated Marxist. It’s a very good film imo
Seen Robocop yet? The original 1886 one.
In the many analyses of the film, what the libs neglect to add is that Murphy’s struggle to reclaim his humanity and his memories is an analogy to achieving class consciousness.
whoa, that’s a really old movie
Yeah… the current version is a remaster. The original way to watch it was a series of zoetropes with a guy reading out the lines to you as you looked into each one.
I’m huge on action movies and I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen Robocop. I will add it to the list rn, it’s a classic
Parasite is a pretty good movie that the center critiques capitalism.
I saw it when it first came out, but now that I’ve read theory, I may have a different perspective. I liked it vaguely from what I remember
Funnily (but actually sad) enough, I know some people IRL who didn’t get the message and thought the titular “parasites” were the poor family, living under the floorboards. Yeah.
Have you seen “Sorry to Bother You” by Boots Riley? fiction and vivid and wild 8 Years Before - About Donbass/ Ukraine is a documentary
Anything by Ken Loach. ‘I’m Sorry We Missed You’, about zero-hours subcontracted labour in the UK and ‘I, Daniel Blake’, about the collapse of British social welfare especially.
He’s particularly tuned in to UK socialist movements and his work well worth watching
I was searching for these movies and discovered that he also made The Wind that Shakes the Barley, a movie about the Irish Anti-Imperialists in the 20s. It was a great movie and one I intend to watch again, I look forward to seeing his other works
Reds is an epic film with Warren Beaty, quite good.
The Parallax View and JFK while not Marxist in the least take a dim, suspicious, rightfully paranoid view of the American state and intelligence apparatus and the lengths they’ll go to.
Mission to Moscow (1943) very good American movie, tells the truth about Russia under Stalin as part of American WW2 propaganda (later denounced and cited as evidence of communist infiltration so you know it’s good).
The Battle at Lake Changjin movies from China (subtitles in English available) are quite good for seeing Americans getting their asses kicked as well as reflecting on the sacrifices of some of the greatest of comrades who gave their lives to free half of Korea.
Motorcycle Diaries is one of my favorites. A really beautiful film.
That one I need to revisit. I have the book and read like halfway thru before I started reading theory heavily. Then I took a long flight and saw they had Motorcycle Diaries as one of the inflight movies so I only watched it up until the point where I stopped reading as to avoid spoilers. Gonna continue reading that so I can check the movie
Another one is Bacurau. Oddly enough Obama recommended this one (as well as parasite lol). Irony.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is my favorite film. It’s very surreal and uses it to it’s advantage to make some of the most elaborate jabs at the ruling class I’ve ever seen.
Also the director, Luis Bunuel has got to be one of the most based major filmmakers in history.
There’s a new movie called How to Blow Up a Pipeline, inspired by the book of the same name. It was written by a leftist, and doesn’t feel virtue signally.
Burn! With Marlon Brando. It’s on YouTube for free.
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