Academy Award time: What's the most liberal movie of all time?

[cincinnati65]

Which movie (past or present) embodies the most liberal message?

[summer]

Thanks for your post! :)

[Hildy]

I SOOO agree about Chocolat! I have had so many arguments with women about this movie, which aggravated the hell out of me. Women are the worst when it comes to things like this. My argument is why was Juliet Binoche's character so disrespectful to the town in which she came to live? But women never see that angle, it's always the woman as the victim.

[CDHart]

Who really cares?

Carolyn

[summer]

LOL... :)

[Hildy]

I saw that movie last week too. It was called EXIT WOUNDS. It made NO sense. And what the hell happened to his beautiful boss at the end? How come movie cops can just walk into a nightclub and start beating up people? Can you imagine if this happened in real life. But then again, Steven (Cradle-Robber) Segal's movies never have anything to do with reality, although he thinks they do.

[oldcats]

Just one point...Klinger was not gay. Guess you couldn't see past your generalizations.
Oldcats

[bleudevil]

I saw the first half of "Chocolat" and thought it really set up a straw-man argument against religion. There was a scene in which a nice, lonely old man is in confession and he tells the priest that he prayed to God for his little dog to recover from its illness. The priest lectures him to the tune of "when will you stop mocking God by praying for an animal? Animals don't have souls."

There had already been put-downs of the Lenten tradition of giving up a pleasure, with no idea that it was temporary, to honor Jesus, and that there was a greater reward. It was shown as just some tradition that people did for some dumb reason. The scene with the mean, petty priest capped my building annoyance.

I can handle a movie that questions a religious tradition or belief. Just don't insult my intelligence.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951): Displaying apparent superior
scientific intelligence, mesmerizing suave demeanor, and charming
good looks, charismatic liberal from outer space proposes disarmament
and socialist world government through the UN. In ludicrous fits of what
can only be described as campy self-satire, the basic scenario is
adopted by liberal democrats for the next five decades as millions
of voters are hoodwinked through the Clinton years. If you've ever
felt like you were living in a B Sci-Fi movie, you almost have been.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

bump

[bleudevil]

There are a lot of women who feel more than they think. They like to identify with a female character and pretend that they are her - sort of like little girls with their dolls. It's more fun to escape into the fantasy of being a beautiful, mysterious free spirit like Binoche's character than to really think critically about what she was doing.

[Melas]

And don't forget Delroy Lindo's speech "The people that made up them rules don't have to live in this cider house. They don't gotta live by them rules. We gone tear down them rules and make our own rules." It doesn't get more liberal than that, in my mind.

? Are you crazy? Seems to me that I remember a people who got sick and tired of living under some rules that were made an ocean away by people who didn't have to live under those rules themselves. See: American Revolution

Seems to me that I remember an important part of the Contract of America that said that the rule makers could not exempt themselves from the rules, as they had done before. Read: FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;

I fail to see the liberalism here at all.

[Rick_Hunter]

I can't understand how you, and your little ilk club, can be members of this forum for as long as you have and still be that damn stupid. By calling you stupid I'm assuming you're not just continually being intellectually dishonest.

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Oh, he's not so bad, really. Still, it's somewhat amusing (and disturbing) to wonder what it's like to see the world through the eyes of people like FR's resident quasi-Wahabist Cultural Jihad:

All libertarians are draft-dodging, hedonistic potheads who hate traditional American moral values.
All atheists and agnostics are evil Satanists/Communists who want to destroy Christianity.
All homosexuals are pedophiles and should be rounded up and put in prison, if not executed.
The government should legislate morality, even though it didn't work with Prohibition.
The War on Drugs must go on, even if more violent criminals are let out of prison early to make room for non-violent drug offenders.
Censorship is necessary to protect morality. The First Amendment be damned.


The irony is that he probably claims to be for "less government" too.

[Rick_Hunter]

? Are you crazy? Seems to me that I remember a people who got sick and tired of living under some rules that were made an ocean away by people who didn't have to live under those rules themselves. See: American Revolution Seems to me that I remember an important part of the Contract of America that said that the rule makers could not exempt themselves from the rules, as they had done before. Read: FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress; I fail to see the liberalism here at all.

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Exactly.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I agree with you. Cider House Rules. My brain is still burning from that one. YUCK

[CRAW]

Dead man walking has to be in the top ten

[CRAW]

"Father Ed, was this based on a true story?"

Well was it?

[aculeus]

Mission to Moscow. Not liberal. Pro-Stalinist.

[Thumper1960]

Reds

[Lancey Howard]

In recent periods, The Contender.

I watched The Contender last night. It was laughable. It could have been great propaganda for the far left (and I believe it tried to be) but it was poorly directed and the casting had too much caricature. It was all too pat to the point it was just silly. I watched most of it but turned it off near the end to watch something else. The woman who said guns should be confiscated from every household, who said that Christianity is a "fairy tale", and who also said she could not support any pro-life nomination for the Supreme Court ended up getting confirmed as VP, right? (Don't worry about "spoiling" the ending, LOL!) And she gets confirmed overwhelmingly because of the passionate speech given by President Jeff Bridges, right? LOL !!!

[Lancey Howard]

The War on Drugs must go on, even if more violent criminals are let out of prison early to make room for non-violent drug offenders.

I would leave that one out of your list. It's based on an obvious lie (or crass distortion at best) and sounds buffoonish, thereby casting doubts on the credibility of the rest of your list of caricatured generalizations.

Regards,
LH