[lbo-talk] Das Kapital -The Movie

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 11:07 PM -0700 5/22/03, Mike Ballard wrote:
>Introductory musical background--Prokofiev's barbarian "Scythian 
>Suite".  The surround sound thunders as the credits pass and the 
>last dying embers of music fade away and radiate...........
>
>Opening scene:
>
>From outer space, the audience is propelled closer and closer and 
>finally to surface of planet Earth where they find themselves 
>amongst *a vast accumulation of commodities*, some of them 
>anthropomorphized, walking around--even consuming each other; some 
>of them, actually existing human beings selling themselves into long 
>hours of slavery for something known as *the universal equivalent*. 
>Ninety-four percent of the official *work-force* is hired to produce 
>ever more commodities, adding to the vast pile which still others 
>have sold *their* time to sell.  It is a bright, shiny, plasticized 
>world in places.  It is a toxic waste dump in others.  Sometimes the 
>two intersect.  The wage-slaves go to where their employers tell 
>them to go for the day (some at night) and then jam up in smog 
>choked traffic for an hour's trip to their locked boxes.  They turn 
>on their TV s and watch ads for commodities between insipid 
>programming and produce alpha-waves until they hit the hay.
>
>Scene two, scene three and the final scene go on much the same until 
>the environment collapses.
>
>                THE END
>
>CAPITAL--sure it's a horror film.  But heck, it's the
>only film in town.

George A. Romero's _Dawn of the Dead_ (1978) comes close to your 
vision of _Das Kapital - The Movie_.
-- 
Yoshie

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