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zoom_zip wrote

gonna go with fictional films here:

people get a lot of mileage out of the monologue from great dictator

they live (lol)

a lot of bong joon ho films tackle the themes at a surface level

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Fool wrote

For this I would need to clarify what is to be considered films;
Any movie/documentary/short clip/stolen home video;
Fictional only;
Non-fictional only;
Anything utilising physical film; or
Pieces of naturally occurring organic film matter.

And then I would add nothing useful... I could probably find a way to bring anarchism into a conversation about any film... Thinking about the Nausicaa post made me think of Ghibli movies which don't have some sort of radical element... I thought maybe Kiki's delivery service, but even that has alienation from society as the major adversary to overcome.

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Tequilx_Wolf OP wrote

Short or feature-length films specifically, but it's really an open question.

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snack wrote

There's a good [list] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_dealing_with_Anarchism) on wikipedia that names a lot of titles. The last one of the documentries - No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism by Tancrède Ramonet - makes a decent introduction for non-anarchists. Other than the already mentioned films I also had to think of Sorry to bother you.

But I think any film that incorporates some sort of social critique could be discussed from an anarchist standpoint. If you're making a list of your own somewhere I think it would be cool if it included some sort of 'study guide' or questions like the ones that are sometimes at the end of books.

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snack wrote

okay, what did I do wrong with the link thing?

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subrosa wrote

looks like there's some space between [ ] and ( )

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snack wrote

secret message for subrosa

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subrosa wrote

First Known Use of thank-you: 1792

TIL that the French Revolution gave rise not only to politics, but also to being polite. /s

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subrosa wrote

Some bad examples come to mind. They'd probably fit best in the "vaguely relevant", or the "overlapping themes" category.

Cops (1922) - Buster Keaton's character interrupts a cop parade, has dozens of them chase him, and eventually he locks em all up at the police station :P

There's some strong anti-clerical and anti-burgeois-culture elements in Luis Buñuel films that I like, particularly Viridiana (1961) and The Phantom of Liberty (1974).

PlayTime (1967) is a fun take on the absurdities of modern life (as Jacques Tati saw them in Paris in the 60s, that is). Too long though, I never finished it.

There's the underappreciated German low-budget flick Muxmäuschenstill (2004), a fine portrayal of "discipline and punish" as a way of life. (copypasting a better description: A pseudo documentary study of an archetypal German who tries to model his world according to his ideas of law and (sexual) order.)

Leave No Trace (2018), Captain Fantastic (2016), and Office Space (1999) probably deserve a mention.

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_caspar_ wrote

they move in and out of all 3. at some point Ill make a larger effort to make lengthier and more specific anarchy related film lists, but for now,,,

Eros + Massacre (1969)
Two Lane Blacktop (1971)
Love and Anarchy (1973)
Winstanley (1975)
The Devil Probably (1977)
The Third Generation (1979)
Sweet Bunch (1983)
L'amour braque (1985)
Picnic (1996)
Monsters Club (2011)
Nocturama (2016)
Microhabitat (2017)

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deeppurplehazedream wrote

Doing a search on Raddle for "movie" and similar terms brings up a trove of information on the general topic. Whether it is a good introduction to non-anarchists might be related to what that person is already interested in. For example, someone who likes history or whatever. It's a good question, but I don't think there's any easy answer.

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