SHADOWS AND FOG and how your family can escape having that CONDITION in your HEADS! Share  political flicks with the babies!This ocurred to me yesterday as  I was brooding about the need for activists to educate the public by calling up radio talk shows. What about educating our own children?  Parents handpicking the films their kids watch would be a great idea. Then, Mum, Dad watches these videos/ dvds with them. This would be a super important part of any family Cultural or political Enquiry. As a mother of four,  I know Kids have this rebellion thing. They don't want to sit with parents to watch anything heavy. They don't seem to want to accept parents as think gurus. They instinctively fend off 'thought police.' But if one could create the family flick watching tradition with a flippergibbit pop movie the first night, gook it up with popcorn, sodas, make it a regular, accepted family tradition.

Then, slowly one could start to show kids films of substance, that are relevant. Socially relevant films might reach into the darkest works of art about the POWER STRUCTURE. There's a definite POST KAFKA design motif to a film I was just watching SHADOWS AND FOG on cable  the Woody Allen movie, about pre-Nazi Germany very allied to any of Kafka's many coded metaphoric novels, w. descriptions of repressive pre-fascist European life..... and to see where else one could go for a double header, maybe rent 1984 with Burton and John Hurt. Or Woody's THE FRONT about the McCarthy hearings.

That was Saturday nite, Then maybe Sunday nite, a jocular side enquiry into facism via comedy BRAZIL which is
post Kafkaesque combined with Monty Python. Great winter movie watching. But the point is to sharpen a.) our kids' sense of art lineages, Kafka, Orwell, b.) our sensitivity to coded references in movies or literature as a necessary part of art. Why? Cuz the Thought Nazis could destroy you. No fun being the WHITE ROSE SOCIETY! There is repression.

So talk it over with the children, the big question. WHY do writers ENCODE these things? Is it necessary to create allegories with these jolting metaphors...in order to have it be art? Well the Great Dictator with Charlie Chaplin is kind of daringly upfront about Hitler. That film might be a great palate cleanser. How long is that movie? It's actually a main course. But no more overt film than that exists in this lineage.

FAMILY MOVIE watching as part of parents teaching kids about reality could/should be attempted. Ya think most parents actually do not WANT their kids to have leftist sensibilities? That it's like a florid tendency toward being gay or being an artist which breaks out in society and while we love to see its florid spots on another, we don't want it on our own kids? Then we are allowing them to be trusting sheep led to slaughter. Eating candies in Hell said the Chilean poet. Ignorant. Trusting a college degree will get them a job in maybe that OFFICE in
BRAZIL. But it doesn't and they're flipping burgers or if they're lucky, creating a cottage industry as janitors CLEANING that office. Do we fear education? What are we doing that we're too busy on weekend nites to educate our kids with selected flick flippin?

GREAT FILMS TO RENT:  'Burn" with Brando. "Under Fire" Nolte/Hackman. Matrix w. Keanu Reeves
MISSING Lemmon/spacek SALVADOR by Oliver Stone James Woods, Belushi. QUIET AMERICAN Brendan Fraser Michael Caine. THE WHOLE LIST OF MOVIES
 

LIST OF POLITICAL VIDEOS, DOCUMENTARIES ON DVD AVAILABLE AT BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO.

MICHAEL MOORE's FILMS

"Who KILLED the Electric Car", narrated by Actor Martin Sheen.

AARON RUSSO's FREEDOM FROM FACISM    busts IRS/ FED, IMF!

"Control Room",  Al Jazzera TV station in Iraq, the people who run it, and also about what Iraqis think and feel about  the war and the AMERICAN presence there, it's negative as well as positive effects for Iraq.
 
 

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