Posted on 09/26/2024 12:59:19 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
All one has to do is look at today’s movie, TV and advertising output, and one can clearly see that Hollywood remains firmly in enemy hands.
On the other hand, numerous WWII films such as "Merrill's Marauders" and "The Longest Day" were coming out, and in these, our side always won. I began to wonder why so many movies refighting the dead-and-gone Third Reich and not our current adversary were coming out, and why we were never victorious in any films with Cold War themes.
This observation added to my growing skepticism about the liberal mindset that permeated our culture at the time.
Oscar™ nominated [directrix] Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, Spoor, In Darkness) portrays extraordinary, hidden story of Gareth Jones', an ambitious young Welsh journalist who went to the Soviet Union in 1933 and discovered the terrifying truth behind the Stalinist Soviet utopia.The journalist investigation of young Jones quickly turned into a journey of life or death...The whole story was an inspiration for George Orwell to write "Animal Farm."
According to imdb's "Trivia":
On the April 1st, 2022 installment of "The Lawfare" podcast, screenwriter Andrea Chalupa reports how during the course of filming "Mr. Jones", they reached out to the New York Times for permission to quote directly from Walter Duranty's article that denied a famine had taken place in Ukraine, but the Times refused to grant permission.
But, this good movie was not made in Hollywood. Production companies were Polish, British, and Ukranian
Of course imdb.com puts their thumb on the scale. The arithmetical average rating is 7.2, but imdb.com adjusts it down to 6.9. Both are low, imho.
Palm Springs International Film Festival: 2020 Winner Best of the Fest Audience Vote
Communism has always been a true global threat and one that is still controlling a large part of the world’s population and fighting for control of the rest, but Nazism never was such a threat, it was a bloody but short lived Hitler WWII thing that was never going to catch on in the world, but it is associated with being white so for generation after generation it remains the great evil villain for Hollywood and politics, even on FR it is our biggest scary monster of world domination and growing power.
Knowing the main characters in that movie I laughed because it could very well be true!
I have noticed a difference in how Commies have been treated in movies about the Spanish civil War..
For Whom the Bell Tolls, commies good guys.
The Angel wore Red, commies bad guys.
Pan’s Labyrinth, commies again good guys.
I have to disagree here. It definitely showed a large field of bodies he found when he fell into a water hole while trying to escape. It was one of the most horrifying scenes in any movie I have ever seen and definitely let you know the whole sale murders going on. You have to see the scene to appreciate it. The Killing Fields is an excellent movie that does not glorify Communism in any way.
Which is really stupid because the first letter H stood for House, as in House of Representatives and he was in the Senate...
They were almo mad about his help exposing Alger Hiss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss
According to Hillary Clinton, all the troops landing at Normandy beaches, June 6, 1944, were at least socialists, Democrats, communists . . . going to fight “German” “Republicans.”
BTW, Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat.
And Thomas Jefferson - legacy slave owner - still has a monument standing in the nation’s capital.
Not to mention, all the streets and places with “Jefferson” in their names.
Kamala Harris - legacy slave owner - has been approved by the New World Order of Socialist States, because gender and other leftist rubber stamps of incongruity.
/sarc
It also annoyed me that a radio was playing the 1974 Paul McCartney song "Band on the Run" in a scene set in 1973. Such anachronisms are one of my pet peeves about recent movies.
I want Disney to re-release “Song of the South.” They’ll never do it while the woke crowd is in charge.
“The Lives of Others” was an excellent movie.
Agnieszka Holland is a traitor to Poland with that garbage movie about Polish border guards.
That is the truth. And they are no different today than they were back then, except for the fact that today, they don’t give a damn about being caught and punished for their illegality.
Could I add that it seems to me that Communism, all over the world, rose to the occasion after 1945 and used the unspeakable abyss of Nazi crimes as a kind of screen to „hide“ its own shortcomings?
Just an idea…🙁
The left is still using Nazism as a bludgeon and now some on the right are constantly using it, pay attention to how intense the fear of Nazism is on FR, it shows up all day long as though it is a huge new global threat.
Yes, I have noticed that, too.
Although Nazism is dead as an ideology, God be blessed!, its twin, Communism, which is no less evil, is still alive and well. To the detriment of freedom- loving people in America and all over the world 🙁
I once started to listen to a book on CD about the history of the 1920s. The author's left-wing bias was obvious from the get-go. However, I continued to listen but stopped and returned the CD to the library when he said that Woodrow Wilson's Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, the bête noire of all liberals for leading the "Palmer Raids" against Communists and anarchists, was a Republican.
Abraham Lincoln a democrat??
Source please!
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