I’ll start:
Pan’s Labyrinth
Blade Runner
Starship Troopers
Alien
The Thing
The Matrix
Pirates of the Caribbean
Paths of Glory
The Devil’s Backbone
Return of the Living Dead
Robocop
Grave of the Fireflies
Princess Mononoke
Come and See
Children of Men
The Road
Mad Max
Fallout
Star Wars
>>16964I mean it's pretty much saying late capitalism is shitty
But on the other hand, some generic 'capitalism not so good' message isn't that based really, it just commodifies resistance.
Wait, Star Wars? What the fuck? That isn't even anticapitalist
>>16987oh god, imagine if they actually made a fallout movie
someone is probably trying to get that project off the ground as we speak
>>16985The heroes are pirates and the villains are usually the crown.
The third movie has them do a pirate version of the international and resist colonialism driven by the East India Trading Company in a very thinly disguised metaphor for anti-imperialism. The main villain of 2 and 3 (and retroactively 1 to a degree) spends practically all his screentime explaining how capitalism is evil/inevitable/all-consuming. His catchphrase is literally "It's nothing personal, just good business," which he says every time he backstabs someone (which is often). 3 also opens with holocaust-tier imagery paired with the union jack being obscured by the company's flag in the most obvious symbolism of all time (vid related). I'm kind of shocked Disney allowed this movie to do what it did, but the previous film was only like the third film ever to gross a billion dollars at release.
good thread but people need to explain at least in a sentence what they mean by communist
Like this
>>16989WTF, are you memeing or for real?
>>17081The material understanding of fascism is that it’s capital in distress and to defend itself it uses class collaboration among other things.
Anything else is just “fascism is when the government does mean things” lib screeching
>>16960>Starship TroopersI mean, it's a parody of fascism, but that does not make it communist.
>Blade Runner>MatrixThose things are more like techno-accelerationist Nick Land type of stuff, can be communist, but isn't necessarily. Also, very implicit Zionism in the Matrix triology.
>AlienHow? Because of big evil corporation?
>The ThingMight as well, John Carpenter is a crypto-Marxist.
>Pirates of the CaribbeanFuck no.
>Return of the Living DeadI agree.
>Come and See>secretely Literally made by the Soviet Union, lol.
>Children of MenYes.
>The Road>Mad MaxNo.
>Star WarsLiterally knights and princesses as the good guys in a "Republic".
Here is my pick:
>The Last Emperor Bernando Bertolucci was a Marxist and the movie portrays the transformation of Emperor Puyi to a common gardener.
>>16960The Matrix isn't communist.
Children of Men is not communist, it is just anti-immigration and anti-fascism. Its antifa the movie.
Robocop just criticizes the police and privatization but not capitalism.
Pirates of the Caribbean is libertarian hogwash
Star Wars is pro imperialist and pro capitalism.
>>19593>Star Wars is pro imperialist and pro capitalismLOL the entire plot of the original series is the struggle against a fascistic empire and the scumminess of merchants is also displayed. The Ewoks are literally based off the Viet Cong. The prequels are specifically detailing the fall of republican democracy into fascism and referring to the United States, Rome and Nazi Germany as their inspiration for this. See the Star Wars thread
>>2737>Pirates of the Caribbean is libertarian Fucking how, the story isn't about free trade or some shit, the true antagonist of the 2nd and 3rd films is a British Imperialist Lord that seeks to control the sea literally to boost the British Empire. Jack Sparrow is merely a man hat, after having saved slaves from a slave as a youth, decided to live a life of freedom, living and enjoying life, going and doing whatever he wanted. That's more anarchist than anything you're saying.
>Robocop The entire film exposes corporations and so capitalism as being filthy hypocritical and selfish, and this is further seen in the satirical advertisements that are shown, the second film expands on it even more.
>>19811>the true antagonist of the 2nd and 3rd films is a British Imperialist Lord that seeks to control the sea literally to boost the British Empire.His role has more to do with being a merchant than a lord (which IIRC was only a recently attained status by the time of the movies), and given the time period (1720s, i.e. post English Revolution) he seems more like a bourgeois who just has the title.
> Jack Sparrow is merely a man hat, after having saved slaves from a slave as a youth, decided to live a life of freedomThe scene where it's revealed he freed slaves was deleted and not necessarily canon. It also strongly implies that freeing slaves is what got him branded a pirate, forcing him into that life rather than causing him to choose it. The scene was cut for removing a lot of the moral ambiguity from his character and making him less interesting.
>>19812>more like a bourgeois who just has the titleTrue, my point is that regardless he's not a positive figure and is a representation of capitalism and colonialism.
>slaver scene cut It's still heavily implied (100 souls sacrificed in return for 100 souls saved) and Jack is implied to have known he'd be forced into piracy by his action and chose it willingly.
>>19814 True, but I'm not OP, I merely pointed out that calling these films pro-capitalist or imperialist is bullshit.
>>16960>Once Upon a Time in the WestVery red film. The screenplay was cowritten by a Marxist.
All the Sergio Leone westerns are dripping with anti-capitalism, but this one is the best film, and the most political.
>>19593The Matrix is an anarchist critique of Marxism-Leninism.
Humans live in a communist society, ruled over by a benevolent machine party-state. The law of value is abolished, the humans contribute according to their ability (body heat and electricity) and receive according to their need (nutrients + the simulated dreamworld). It's outright stated that only reason the Matrix isn't a paradise is that the human mind wouldn't accept a perfect world, so they had to make it 90s-styled instead.
The human protagonists are individualist anarchists who are nonetheless discontented with the hierarchical machine-state, and the sequels are all about them trying to set up their own autonomous commune-city and survive the machines trying to Kronstadt them.
>>29271>scarfaceYeah. Dude is a criminal that gets dumped by Fidel and immediately shows that he's a hypercapitalist psycho who's willing to deal drugs and murder people for a big mansion and a decadent lifestyle.
Also Sosa is literally a glowie-backed international drug lord who conspired with his "friend from Washington" to kill a dude who was planning to tell the world about the operation.
>>29534>Saw V explicitly shits on capitalist bitches as any socialist would have easily passed the tests with easecould you explain? i have not seen it
what's the test exactly
>>29590>could you explain? i have not seen iteach test could have been solved with no deaths /minimal maiming. Will post some clips before describing
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4MtXqM1moLo>1st test required a key to unlock their collars in time or they would be decapitated, with each person leashed to one another>instead of thinking of sharing/testing one the keys, each fumbles for their own key directly in front of themKinda obvious, would probably have tested/asked/given a key to see if it fit any other collar
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8BgcozieWuE>2nd test required them to find 3 keys to gain access to 3 separate areas which would protect them from the room's bombs. For reason they dont think they can share these areas that can easily more than 1 person and instead immediately betray each otherTbh this one was really obvious
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FnmbPDYmz0E&listen=false>3rd test required persons to electrocute themselves to connect power to gain access to the next room before current room blows up. u can guess what happenshttps://invidious.rhyshl.live/watch?v=BorDZlwWZb0>final test required many pints of blood via hand thru circular saw blade. theres 2 person instead of the 5 or so…probably the most clever film of the franchise, not my favorite however.
>>29589sauce? looks interesting as fuk
>>29591you know what, this saw series can also be a commentary on "muh nature argument"
like people don't turn into barbarous savages just because, being put in conditions like these where resources are limited like capitalism
i would be so dead if i was in saw 5, riddles and math are not my strong suit
i hated all folk stories with it, just smarmy ass stuff
>sauce? looks interesting as fukThor Love & Thunder, believe it or not, it's the same movie
Taika drops in some redpilled stuff between the jokes
The last Thor had stuff about imperialism and how empires are built on blood and then covered up in nice sounding fairy tales
>>29601we should start a website like that
leftypolreviews
not sure what we would do tho
>>29601nope am black, also not well read enough about maoism to kno whatever the fuck that entails, tho i do like seein hwite cunts put in cages getting the fuck getting tortured out em
>>29602do it bitch, i like to semi shit post
>>29600>can also be a commentary on "muh nature argument">like people don't turn into barbarous savages just because, being put in conditions like these where resources are limited like capitalism Yep actually thought that once about some of the absurd situations applied to the contestants and alot of circumstances we find ourselves in are purely arbitrary. Nice read,anon thanks for the sauce too
>>18188The whole plot of the movie is that the rich kid stops a revolution by mediating between the "heart and the hands"
I'd consider it hard core liberal at most
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