Have you ever noticed....

[Hexen]

That there isn't a single film/game/tv show/etc (that I'm aware of) made in the west (especially in Hollywood) that is pro-leftist or accurately portrays a socialist society would truly look like?

[MarxSchmarx]

That there isn't a single film/game/tv show/etc (that I'm aware of) made in the west (especially in Hollywood) that is pro-leftist or accurately portrays a socialist society would truly look like?

You mean like:
Land and Freedom,
Matewan,
Reds,
Bread and Roses,
For whom the bell tolls,
Salt of the Earth,

umm. yeah.

[Invincible Summer]

That there isn't a single film/game/tv show/etc (that I'm aware of) made in the west (especially in Hollywood) that is pro-leftist or accurately portrays a socialist society would truly look like?

As for games, the Red Faction series portrays a miner's uprising against a mega-corporation, which is sort of leftist I suppose.

[x359594]

You mean like:...Reds...For whom the bell tolls...

For Whom the Bell Tolls was reduced to the dimensions of an adventure/love story, thoroughly depoliticized relative to Hemingway's novel, and directed by Sam Wood, a notorious anti-communist fink.

As to Reds, Trevor Griffiths wanted his name removed from the credits after Warren Beatty reduced the politics to background color and (again for Hollywood) put the romance front and center. Beatty persuaded Griffiths to keep his name on the project, and now Griffiths' original screenplay has been published for comparison with the finished film.

[Kowalsky]

900
one hundred steps
the battle of algeri

[Axle]

Metropolis.

Its silent, black and white and well over eighty years old, but its got a serious leftist slant to it. Not necessarily a revolutionary Marxist one, but class conciousness is pretty front and center.

[x359594]

Metropolis. Its silent, black and white and well over eighty years old, but its got a serious leftist slant to it...

There's an entire thread on Metropolis: http://www.revleft.com/vb/metropolis-t129330/index.html?t=129330&highlight=Metropolis .

Lang was not happy with the theme of the film, as expressed in the above referenced thread.

[Invincible Summer]

Metropolis.

Its silent, black and white and well over eighty years old, but its got a serious leftist slant to it. Not necessarily a revolutionary Marxist one, but class conciousness is pretty front and center.

Yeah, but too bad it blatantly endorses reformism and sort of paints the working class as stupid people that need help from a "mediator"

[Qayin]

V for Vendetta?
Children of men?

[x359594]

...it blatantly endorses reformism and sort of paints the working class as stupid people that need help from a "mediator"

In 1965 the director of Metropolis Fritz Lang expressed his own reservations about the film: “I have often said that I don’t like Metropolis and that is because I cannot accept the leitmotiv of the message of the film. It is absurd to say that the heart is the mediator between the hands and the head, that is to say, of course, between employee and employer. The problem is social, not moral.”