David Lynch

[Peter K.]

>I think, though, that as far as today's American movies are
>concerned, we are not exactly inundated by a flood of an earnest
>interest to include a _left-wing_ political message in art.
Instead,
>we are being bombarded by war propaganda movies (e.g., _Behind
Enemy
>Lines_, _Black Hawk Down_, _Collateral Damage_); and clever and
>technically expert films with little to say about anything
(e.g.,
>_Memento_, _Being John Malkovich_).
>--
>Yoshie

Two recent movie I liked were Godsford Park and the Royal
Tenenbaums.
In GP, you have a sweatshop owner who sleeps with (rapes?) his
workers
and sends the resulting kids to orphanages. The class system is
totally in your
face. I'm not sure what TRT was about exactly, but it was fun.
And again, the
patriarch is the baddie which is usually the case.

Peter