Post Zig Forums films. Preferably recent ones (i.e last few years) but all welcome. We're going to do a screening at my uni and would love some suggestions.
Pic related - don't really know a lot about the subject matter but I love Mike Leigh (only watched Naked tbh)
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Not specifically a film but a TV series
"The Young Ones"
Not overtly commie but lefty leaning
BR2049 is an obvious one.
my dude, same here. I really need to give it a rewatch and check out Leigh's other films.
Also, has anyone seen Come and See? (pic related) I've been meaning to check it out for years. A lot of people say it's the best WWII film, unflinchingly depicting the atrocities of Barbarossa from the Soviet POV. I think the reason I've been lagging on watching it is because I feel like I'll be completely miserable by the end.
Peterloo would be a good one for the university crowd. Not great for taking the family out to watch. Lots of dialogue and build up (about 2 hours 20, or so)
Funny as hell depiction of just how fucked elections in India are and the cartoonishly corrupt CRPF, it's up for free on Redspark's film page
I watched Sorry to Bother You a few days ago, not only was it extremely redpilled, it was very creative. You can tell Boots Riley actually cares about communism.
Why do so many people think this is in any way "left"?
The Letterboxd link has Discreet Charm, but Buñuel's Exterminating Angel is also a good pick. For movies more about class explicitly, Renoir's Rules of the Game is excellent, too, as well as Ozu's I Was Born But… or Tokyo Chorus.
I really liked pic related.
Yeah, it's great. Although it's not about Barbarossa, it's set in 1943 or '44.
I just made this a few mouths ago, anyone got anything else to put on it
Explain.
idk, it's a pro Soviet ww2 film, better then Stalingrad (2013)
I felt it kind of dragged, it shouldn't have been like 2 hours long.
Why not Lord of War with comrade cage?
you're kidding right?
People should just ignore the second half tbh.
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Also include Oliver Stones 10 part documentary, ‘The untold history of the United States’ as it is essentially Noam Chomsky’s ‘Hegemony or survival’ in film format.
I'll recommend Days of Heaven. Not much of a plot but amazing cinematography and sense of historical time and place, it's basically Socialist Realism: The Movie. Not very political but from my experience it's a lot of leftists' favorite film, myself included.
If you do want something political it's hard to beat The Young Karl Marx. Genuinely entertaining and really helps to put a human face behind the intimidating facial hair. Believe it or not it actually tries to explain his political theory as well, making it a good babby's first introduction to Marxism.
I also wanted to recommend Threads but then I remembered you were showing to a group. Fantastically powerful movie and a must see, but I wouldn't show it to your org unless you're trying to turn it into a millenarian cult.
Enemy at the Gates literally invented "the Red Army was a meatgrinder of asiatic hordes, one rifle per two soldiers" meme you hear today. Not even a good film either IMO.
Yes, Animal Farm was literal bought and paid for CIA propaganda with the script rewritten to expunge any pro-socialist elements.
Just watched Glory (1989) and Valkyrie (2008).
Glory is fucking amazing, you should give it a watch if you want to see dixiefags get killed while they glorify those who put those dogs down. As a burger, I know that this place went extremely downhill after the ACW and turned into this corporate monstrosity we see now. The only thing I look up to are the anti-imperialists of the revolution, the anti-reactionaries of the ACW, and the anti-fascists of WW2. Other than that, nothing else should be glorified about this shitty country. So I guess you could say I have a soft spot for films that take place during those 3 time periods of the US.
Valkyrie doesn't really work out in the end for the anti-fascists, so it's pretty sad, but well made.
Richard Stanley's 1990 movie satirized the American arms industry, death drive and nu-fascism in a post-apocalyptic setting, also starring an experimental neurotoxin assassin robot called the M.A.R.K. 13.
Before this, Stanley actually found briefly on the side of the muj in Afghanistan while filming a documentary, and ended up getting into a disastrous attack on a Soviet airfield which broke his brain, being that some of his crew were killed and he had to drag his wounded cameraman across a minefield to safety while tripping on LSD
Oh it's called Hardware
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fuck the ending to that was such garbage
I was hoping you lot would be smarter than Zig Forums claiming to oppose the establishment while letting it shape your mind.
that is one of the best movies i've ever seen. everyone should watch it at least once, but it is devastating. mosfilm has it on youtube with english subtitles:
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Yes. It's gets its impact mostly from disorienting and jarring film techniques. It's a very good use of the medium in evoking the horror.
the wind that shakes the barley is a great movie. Unironically makes me low key hate the free state peace deal
Michael Collins is another great one, both movies are extremely underrated. Liam Neeson can do a pretty nice Irish accent, too.
Trainspotting at least vaguely
Can someone redpill me on what happened with it's director, because I've heard countless times that he was kidnapped to film it and I wanna know how much bullshit that story is
tbh
Dude he's fucking Irish…
only when he plays Liam Neeson. the person who plays him, Mads Mikkelsen, is Danish
Lang's ex-wife was the screenwriter for it. Apparently she had Nazi sympathies, so it seems plausible that the movie was actually supposed to be a class collaborationist, fascist film. Lang, a half-jew, made anti-Nazi movies after he escaped Germany.
In Lang's defense, he said the "hands and head must meet at the heart" ending was extremely stupid looking back on it.
Either this is a really clever joke or you're ESL.
yeah right. next you're gonna tell me Tom Hardy doesn't play Logan Marshall-Green.
well i’m a fuckin idiot…
I just watched this after you guys recommended it.
The ending is a gut punch and really does a good job portraying war as horror show rather than glorifying it. I feel like Lacrimosa being played over the top was much less cliche back then, than it is today.
Im a burger, and most of our war movies are "oorah", ultra violent, jar head wet dreams.
The only thing is that I feel some of the dialogue got lost in translation.
I didn't really understand some of the lines between Glasha and Flyora.
I can't tell if that scene where they first meet was purposely meant to be surrealistic, or if I was missing something. Great film, though.
Man I forgot how good A Very British Coup is.
Rocky I, II, III is the greatest trilogy of all time and the perfect first world Marxist cautionary tale
Poor Italian guy from the bricks has to fight a dude covered in gold and an American flag, his name is literally Creed, gets activated by class consciousness and the love of his fellow working man (get up ya bum 'cause Mickey loves ya) and still loses but finds value in the journey and the power of his community
BUT THEN
He fights Creed again and this time he wins! The roles are reversed, the working man has become the American champion and everyone cheers, amazing sequel and amazing series, but Stallone is not yet finished
Rocky III ties the whole thing up perfectly, suddenly Rocky has been elevated to the position of power, we see him in this elite, surreal world where has has to figure out how robots work and fight Hulk Hogan and shit but most importantly we see Clubber Lang show up, the mirror image of what he once was, just a bad-ass working class guy trying to move up, he even shows up on the steps where Rocky ran up in the montage with the rest of Philly. Rocky's camp is terrified and he realises the sum total of his legacy, spread over three amazing films
The Rocky series is literature for real
Rocky, to me, is an Ego-Com film.
A lot of people point out that it's supposedly about individualism and the triumph human will, and all this is true, but it does something very subversive without even realizing it. The only reason Rocky even has the will to be greater than what he is, is because the people around him start to believe that he can be. Apollo Creed gives him his shot to become a champ, but it's the support of Mickey and his friends that lead him to give up his life as a lumpen gangster, and take training for the fight seriously. Also, I think it's interesting that the hero loses in the end, but is a hero to the people that matter to him most. I feel the egoist idea of chasing a goal on your own terms, and the dialectical materialist idea that quantitative change gives rise to qualitative transformation intersect. The quantitative changes being the chance for Rocky to fight Creed and the support of those around him, and the qualitative change is in Rocky himself.
Also, there's even strange Christian connotations that completely allow for a Christ-com interpretation for it as well.
It's a great film with a lot going on underneath the hood.
the anime version was good, instead ending in the destruction of capitalism, and thus in communism
The important thing is of course that he goes the distance against all odds. The support of the people around let him stand up as the symbol of the working class equal with the living embodiment of prosperity gospel
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You read my mind, I was just going to say something about High Noon.
Probably the best Mann's
Agreed.
I liked it more than Heat.
Not a film but The Sopranos does deserve to be there. It perfectly shows the moral rot and ratfuckery of bourgeois and lumpenbourgeois life, and makes a great analogy for the American empire.
Che is a better leftist movie but Motorcycle Diaries is a better movie in general.