Favorite films

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  Erin Brockovich 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2024

  Proletarian Legally Blonde

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  In Dubious Battle 2016

  ★★★ Watched 27 Oct 2024

  I love that this exists as a movie in the mid-2010s. I don’t know if it achieves what the book did (putting the reader in the world of a Communist labor organizer and the workers they’re struggling with), but I hope it will be a part of a wider contemporary revival of working-class stories like the 1930s had. 

  I figured there would be some political watering down in the movie, but the only noticeable one was the fact that in…

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  Native Land 1942

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Jun 2021

  The reviews on here do not pass the vibe check. This classic filmed by Paul Strand and narrated by Paul fucking Robeson is a legendary anthology following the daily struggles of everyday American workers in the face of powerful industrial employers (and their private armies) in the early 20th century. The blending of fiction and nonfiction, documentary footage and Strand’s cinematography, is, in that time, maybe rivaled only in literature by John dos Passos.

  It unfortunately makes sense that a…

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  Memories of Underdevelopment 1968

  ★★★★★ Added

  I think people read this as a petit bourgeois centrist's guide to ignoring a revolution (and it is to a certain extent), but when the random American in the film asks "If this is really a revolution then why are you constrained to traditional forms of communication?" I think he communicated the larger message of contradiction in the socialist transition phase from capitalism to socialism. In the film's 'new-wave' style and the main character acting as a narcissistic writer, both…

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