"no god, no master"

[Sasha]

so yeah, this movie is coming out next week and it actually looks fairly interesting; http://www.montereymedia.com/nogodnomaster/
its still Hollywood so obviously its filmed from the viewpoint of the good FBI agent and Luigi Galleani is portrayed as some caricature evil villain hell bent on destroying democracy but it does seem to also criticize the redscare and the racist prosecution of the IWW and sacco and vanzetti (and through that obviously also the new war on terror)

[The Jay]

That looks really interesting. I wonder how it will handle all those 'big names' in leftism. Should I go to the theater and try to get out of paying my ticket with the red card?

[BIXX]

Meh... This is gonna end horribly. I can already see all the people citing it as a source to show that anti-capitalists are evil...

[Futility Personified]

It looks interesting but "When a series of package bombs show up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Agent William Flynn (Strathairn) is assigned the task of finding those responsible. He becomes immersed in an investigation that uncovers an anarchist plot to destroy democracy." I might go see it but... that distresses me.

[Sasha]

yeah, though i think that blurb is written by the PR department of the studio and not by the director, this piece written by him makes me a lot more interested;


The disintegration of civil liberties during times of social unrest is nothing new in America. I set out to make a film about the Sacco and Vanzetti saga, the anarchist movement they belonged to, and the cause they dedicated their lives to advancing. Like all stories that need to be understood at the mythic level, this is a part of a nation's history that should inform the present era and future of the country.

Post-World War I was a volatile period in America. The fear of Communism was sweeping the nation. The government began arresting anyone they suspected of being a radical and it didn't take much to get on their list. Immigrants who had worked and lived in the United States for decades were suddenly labeled undesirables and detained without due process for several weeks, even months. U.S. Attorney General Alexander Palmer's solution to the problem was the deportation of thousands of naturalized citizens, the vast majority of whom were of Italian and Russian descent.

Events eerily similar to those of the early 20th Century have recurred too many times in our country's history. We haven't learned how to stop the cycle. Until we do, we are all at risk when our leaders suppress the freedoms of ordinary people in the name of national security.

This film is a tribute to those who have stood tall for human rights in the face of adversity.

—Terry Green [/FONT]

[G4b3n]

More mainstream distortion of anarchism, just what we need! :glare:

[Jimmie Higgins]

The Leland Palmer raids?

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[CaptainCool309]

Yeah it looks like a very interesting movie, I'll definitely go see it. But like other posters here, I hope they don't distort the Post-WWI Anarchism/far left movement too much. The phrase: "an anarchist plot to destroy democracy," definitely gives me the creeps...

[exeexe]

So what did people think of this movie?

[Rafiq]

The last thing I need is to see liberals apologising for what is an obvious ideological flaw in bourgeois civic values (that in times of class struggle, they are quick to suspend these civic values without care, such values are thus illegitimate). A movie like this, conversely will attribute it to some kind of big misunderstanding or a matter of choice. Fuck them. It's so pathetic how they appropriate history, they like to fuck us and then apologize for it several decades later.