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I’m gonna be real though, the revolutionaries in OBAA were both ludicrously horny and ludicrously undisciplined. I have no idea how that group lasted so long, but it’s no wonder fascism won in the world of that movie.
I’m with FD Signifier on this, he said something like if you actually believed this was a leftist movie, they got your ass.
I mean, I get that it’s supposed to be heightened and exaggerated and satirical.
Groups like the weather underground had some strange sexual politics. They wanted to destroy monogamy and patriarchy, so they broke up couples and encouraged (some sources say required) women to sleep with all the men, and had orgies and stuff.
The fact that 2/3rds of the movie isn’t filled with meetings, meeting to plan meetings, or meetings to make agendas for meetings tells me it’s a fictional movie
They also use a lot of 70s “jive” lingo, and most of their members are presented as being crusty ass hippies who briefly worked up the guts to do some radical action.
To me it’s pretty clear the film is heavily inspired by the urban guerilla groups of the 60-70s, in aesthetics if nothing else. DiCaprio’s daughter is presented as something of a bridge between that generation and the modern one, less performative, but also less experienced.
I liked the film a lot but I think I need to give it another 2-3 watches before I can have a concrete take on it. But I do think at it’s core it’s both a celebration and condemnation of the US counter-culture movement.
It’s a loose adaptation of Pynchon’s Vineland which is “about” the
the urban guerilla groups of the 60-70s
and the feds that infiltrated them, and how it fell apart by the 80s.
Is this movie any good? or at least entertaining and worth a watch?
Yes
Thanks, torrenting now
it’s very funny in a good way
