movies

Killer! If my "friend" happens to get their hands on it I'll pass along the message.

I'm new to Hexbear so excuse me if I am suggesting stuff that has already been viewed but there's a few interesting documentaries that I'd like to recommend:

• Darwin's Nightmare [this one would probably need subtitles for accessibility because some of the accents are pretty heavy - I have a hard encoded subtitled version of this documentary somewhere that I'd be able to find.]

(This one is old and it's a bit of a slow-burn documentary because it centres on the Tanzanian Nile Perch fishing industry and it tours the environmental, social, and ecological destruction caused by it in a really holistic way. It's like a snapshot of all the worst ways that capitalism and capitalist-adjacent societal structures exploit the masses through the lens of one species of fish. You have to be actively watching and making sense of the pieces that the documentary shows because it doesn't hand-feed the message to the audience but goddamn is it a perfect movie for radicalising the normies and the people who are left-ish but need the nudge to develop true class consciousness.)

• The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

(This documentary is on the Pruitt-Igoe project and it's a really good snapshot of social planning and social policy under capitalism. It gives a really good taste of intergenerational cycles of poverty, low educational outcomes, and intentional family breakdown driven by policy for African Americans.)

• Living Utopia: Anarchism in the Spanish Revolution

(Although I disagree with some of the content and especially some editorial decisions made in the documentary, e.g. framing the May Days events as being a response to the communist crackdown rather than the government, along with the communist faction, cracking down as a response to hostile actions and the illegal seizure of the Telefónica central exchange, it's an interesting look at the Spanish Civil War from the people who lived in it.)

Edit: Oh shit, I completely forgot about one of my favourite documentaries!

• Cybersocialism: Project Cybersyn & the CIA Coup in Chile

(Thanks to @Budwig_[email protected] for reminding me!

This documentary centres itself on the development of Project Cybersyn, an attempt to create a planned market under socialism using cutting edge technology of the time, while it explores Salvador Allende's presidency, the attempts to subvert it, and the ultimate overthrow of Allende by Pinochet in a coup backed by the CIA. It's equal parts hopeful and heartwrenching. ¡Venceremos!)