>Michael Pollak wrote:
> >
> >
> > I don't think it's a very important movie. I very much enjoyed watching
> > it, and I think it's a interesting innovation in action movies, comparable
> > to, and more successful than, Ang Lee's Hulk. But probably about as
> > memorable.
>
>We can't get hundreds of thousands of people marching in D.C. against
>the war two or three or four times a year, but we sure can be hell on
>movies we can dub "conservative."
>
>I know this runs against over a century of left critique of the arts,
>most of which is grounded in the (false) assumption that the politics of
>a work are intrnsic to the work; neertheless, I would argue that the
>poliitcs of a work are to be judged not by anything 'in' it (movie,
>novel, poem, ballet) but by the conversation the work generates. And as
>fasr as I can see (going back to discussions of Independence Day on the
>Spoons marxism list) all the movies that have generated good left
>discussion have been movies which have been condemned as reactionary or
>conservative. "Progressive" or radical movies don't seem to generate
>much worthwhile discussion.
>
>Carrol
just out of curiosity, what would be a radical movie?
shag
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