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
Bee movie
A bugs life lol
Dr. Strangelove
Wall-E
Monty Python’s Life of Bryan
Come and see
it’s for a party
Great party, haha, uh…I think I’m gonna leave.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.
Any of those 90s kids movies abour real estate developers trying to ruin everything for profit. So Pom Poko is an option.
Breakin 2
Hey Arnold: The Movie 💀
Hey Arnold was always way better than it had a right to be about stuff
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
That’s the connection!
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.
Battle of algiers
subtle
The People Under the Stairs
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.”
Sorry To Bother You
Sorry To Bother You
Beat you to it. But hard agree
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!”
