Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Commie Porn

Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin has been restored and is being re-released. Go ahead and look for the commentary talking about the evils of communism. It's not there. Can you imagine DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation or Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will having revivals without at least a passing condemnation of racism and naziism respectively?

Disgusting.

2 comments:

  1. This is strange TM. All art must be labeled as to it's political appropriateness?

    Please, that's just wrong.

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  2. It's the inconsistency in labeling that is what I find objectionable. The signal sent when you reflexively condemn naziism but not communism elevates the communists as somehow better than the nazis. They weren't. They aren't.

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