I might have the opportunity to screen 1 or 2 movies at a get together soon. Crowd is generally chill people but not all comrades. past features (chosen by others) have included Shaun of the Dead, Rear Window and They Live, but I’m up for anything, I just want it to not be a complete downer, at least the first one, and ideally have communist themes or undertones.
Inglorious Basterds honestly is on the list as a fallback, always a crowdpleaser, but I’d go for something higher-brow if I could think of anything
Sorry To Bother You
Beat you to it. But hard agree
A bugs life lol
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
That’s the connection!
Sorry to Bother You, Robocop, Snowpiercer, Elysium, or In Time.
In Time.
They should have gone all the way and named the movie Justin Time
He fights capitalism and brings sexy back
But really I thought it was decent. Really on the nose, though.
yeah it’s very corny but i don’t hate it. i suppose american media has to be considering the literacy situation.
Sorry To Bother You
Any of those 90s kids movies abour real estate developers trying to ruin everything for profit. So Pom Poko is an option.
Hey Arnold: The Movie 💀
Hey Arnold was always way better than it had a right to be about stuff
Breakin 2
Casablanca. Not exactly “communist” but I think any movie where the moral of the story is “fascists should be shot on sight” is in the right spirit. Plus it’s just a fantastic movie with something for everyone.
Judas and the Black Messiah, especially since COINTELPRO never ended. There’s a long list of young, charismatic BLM leaders who have mysteriously died, often in police custody.
Quinton Tarantino is also a zionist living in Isreal, so fuck him and his edgy bullshit.
Dr. Strangelove
If you want something more high brow than Inglorious Basterds you could do Memories of Murder. Nothing about it makes it feel “political” but it plants a seed that can be harvested watching any other media about the police by asking “wait, why is this crap portraying the police as highly responsible professionals? Memories of Murder was so much more realistic!”
Glass Onion. The key to the mystery is understanding how dumb the rich are.
Slacker 1990 - It’s a day-in-the-life comedy film set in Austin, Texas. Directed by Richard Linklater. “The film follows various eccentric and misfit characters and scenes, never staying with one character or conversation for more than a few minutes before picking up someone else in the scene and following them.” “The characters include a talkative taxi passenger, a UFO buff who insists the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a JFK conspiracy theorist, an elderly anarchist who befriends a man trying to rob his house, a television set collector, and a hipster woman trying to sell a Madonna pap smear.”
“Most of the characters grapple with feelings of social exclusion or political marginalization, which are recurring themes in their conversations. They discuss social class, terrorism, joblessness, and government control of the media.”
Come and see
it’s for a party
Good, the communist party is the tool of the proletariat
showing the comrades Come and See is cool but if this is a crowd that’s expecting Shaun of the Dead, they might never talk to you again.
Great party, haha, uh…I think I’m gonna leave.
Bugs Life
AntZ
The People Under the Stairs
