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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/12/noji-s12.html
Three Minutes–A Lengthening: Nazi barbarism in Poland
… and Private Desert from Brazil
David Walsh
11 September 2022
If there is a spate of films about Nazism and the Holocaust at present, it is not simply that artists and others remain determined to bring out the truth about one of the most terrible episodes in human history, worthy as that effort may be.The new films are clearly a response as well—fully conscious or not—to the rise and threat of the far right in Germany, the US and elsewhere. These works are as much a warning about the present and the future as they are an attempt to shed light on the past. To what extent they dig deeply enough into the traumatic phenomena, despite their undoubted sincerity and artistic seriousness, remains an issue.
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An example
Classic work on the social consciousness film in the silent era: Behind the Mask of Innocence by Kevin Brownlow.
Here’s a marvellous scene from John Carpenter’s They Live (1988), which shows how real socialists see the world. The whole film is available to watch for free on Youtube. While it’s true John Carpenter was/is against free-market-capitalism, this film can very easily be interpreted as anti-capitalism (in general).
A little bit of class war:
A Question of Suspense (1961).
A capitalist murders one of his employees who has discovered a crime. The employee’s wife seeks revenge.
Reds (1981)
This film, based on actual events, tells the story of John Reed (Warren Beatty), American Communist, journalist and activist, whose love affair with writer/feminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) unfolds against the explosive backdrop of the Russian Revolution.
Matewan (1987)
Written and directed by John Sayles this 1920’s set drama based on real events, details the brutal battle between miners, strikebreakers and a corrupt coal mining company in a tense and emotional story of small-town poverty, bitterness and exploitation. When union man Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper) arrives in the backwater town of Matewan, West Virginia to organise a workforce to stand up against the Stone Mountain Coal company, he finds that instead of the men presenting a united force against their real enemy, they are embroiled in disputes between themselves as tensions rise between white miners and black workers.
Despite all good intentions, the situation spirals out of all control and a bloody fight for livelihoods and dignity ensues.
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