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.
This is strange TM. All art must be labeled as to it's political appropriateness?
ReplyDeletePlease, that's just wrong.
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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