Most Bizarre Marxist (?) Movie of All Time: "Sweet Movie"

[NewSocialist]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Sweet_movie.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N6we7OUOOk

OK, this has got to be the strangest plot I've ever read before - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Movie :huh: Just from the plot outline, it seems like a totally incoherent, insane, disturbing, postmodern flick.

Has anyone even seen this thing before? Can it be considered "Marxist" or is it just anti-Marxist propaganda? If ever there was a way to frighten people away from Marxism or anarchism, say that it leads to this sort of madness..

[x359594]

Dusan Makevejev is indeed a great Marxist filmmaker. He extended Eisenstein's associative montage in his two best movies Innocence Unprotected (1968) and WR: The Mysteries of the Organism (1971.)

Sweet Movie is an audacious satire and the culmination of Makavejev's radical phase as a filmmaker. After this movie he retreated to more conventional story telling.

[praxis1966]

I don't think I've seen any of Makevejev's work so I couldn't comment. I will say this, though. I somehow doubt it's any more "bizarre" than Un chien Andolou which, if this tells you anything, was co-written by Salvador Dali. I'm not personally familiar with any Marxist critiques of that particular film (though I'm sure x359594 is, lol) but I do know Luis Buñuel was a self-avowed Marxist... So there's that.

[Diello]

So long as we're having a bizarre premise contest, here's IMDb's plot summary for Naked Lunch:


After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I've seen Sweet Movie.

It didn't strike me as having a particularly Marxist tone. In fact, I'd say that Sweet Movie is pretty anti-communist, between the Brechtian use of Katyn Massacre footage and the general depiction of the "Marxist boat lady" as a deceiver. It's also an anti-capitalist movie, too, though...I don't know. Maybe nihilism is the best way to describe Sweet Movie's ideology?

[scarletghoul]

Raspberry Reich is pretty funny and bizarre. Maybe not as strange as Sweet Movie judging by the synopsis but its certainly up there.