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Brecht's use of the revolution as a background on which to play an unsentimental low comedy, one almost hammed by the distrust of human sensibility of a Ben Jonson, is hard to figure out. He was 22 when he wrote the play, perhaps he was not yet confident to...
The Russian expatriates, as Avrich points out, were scheming to turn the Kronstadt uprising to their own advantage. The rebels and the emigres had nothing in common, and Lenin and Trotsky know it; the sailors called for the realization of the "toilers republic," while the Whites stood for a bourgeois...
The Revolutionary, on the other hand, is a very quiet, honest, unsensational film that refuses to stop being heard after the last frame-unexhausted by a dramatic catharsis and unwilling to go straight to its shelf in the Universe of Ideas. Paul Williams has directed a work that both resists...
Shot mainly through the revolutionary's individual perspective, the film rarely exposes more than a minimal depth of detail about anything. Williams objectifies the complete one-sideness and distortion of the bourgeois media by excluding them almost totally from the film, portraying a virtual knowledge-vacuum through the anaesthetic quietude...
And the choice rules out, of course, all possibilities of argument. It is either or. Either the revolutionary has nothing to say to the oppressor or he is already assimilated. syncretized, digested as an alien but allowed point of view, to be heard but not listened to. For the same...