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...authoritarian mentality as an autonomous entity. It remains stagnant, detached from the dynamic politico-economic context that created it. This is not to say, however, that Volonte is "unconvincing" in the realistic portrayal of an individual pig-figure. His characterization is in fact masterful in embodying the all-important humanist absolute, Ambiguity, as he transforms the cop smoothly, almost imperceptibly-within single shots-from an archetypal tyrant to a snivelling child. It is the very wholeness of his self-contradictory nature that precludes our connecting him concretely to other aspects of reality, i.e. perceiving political signification. Petri uses this character...
Academic Freedom. The University of Buenos Aires, the main organ for propagating European classical-humanist traditions, oppresses national forces of creative self-determination by institutionalizing the imitation of models from the oppressor cultures and by mouthing their ideology ("free trade," "liberalism," and the one crop economy). Professors of course portray the university as "an island of democracy" in a sea of whatever (familiar words on American campuses), obscuring its reactionary political alignment...
...hidden ideology of every element-lurking bourgeois assumptions that give aid and comfort to the maintainers of the ruling order. In other words he exercises dialectically all unexamined values from his cinematic vocabulary. "Realistic" cinema becomes his most formidable enemy: metaphysical defender of "the ideology of real life." universalist, humanist justifier of the present politico-economic system, mystifier of the historical alternatives open to the oppressed. So when he presents an image of oppression in Wind From the East. with soldier and Indian simultaneously reading from books of conflicting ideology. Godard makes sure we don't take this...
...perhaps radicals don't admit any humanist absolutes. Still, obstruction and violence are extreme forms of blustering. Cicero, you recall, advised speakers to bluster when they had no case and to speak dispassionately when the facts were with them. Thus it is a great political disappointment as well, that though the facts are with us, many radicals have really demonstrated that they have no faith in their own cause...
...ends of the country and different ethical viewpoints. Guy P. Gillette, a rock musician from Yonkers, N.Y., was ready to fight for the U.S. in the event of an attack or help in any United Nations peace-keeping mission. But Gillette, now 25, refused induction because, he said, his humanist views forbade him to take part in the "unjust" Viet Nam conflict...