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Anarchy U.S.A
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Anti-communist paranoia crashes into the Civil Rights Movement head-on to create Anarchy U.S.A, one of the most bizarre, wrongheaded movies ever made. Produced in the aftermath of the Harlem and Watts riots, this pseudo-documentary purports that the Civil Rights Movement is part of a world-wide movement organized and directed by Communists to enslave all mankind! ln an oddly edited montage of newsreel footage and doctored photos, it compares Communist tactics in China, AIgeria, and Cuba to those used by the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. This is particuIarly preposterous when the anonymous narrator telIs us that America is being tricked into becoming a Soviet Negro Republic over non-vioIent scenes of the Freedom Riders, sit-ins, and even a black church congregation (!) We do meet two former members of the Communist Party who actuaIly are African-American, but whether they were ever involved in anything more sinister than town halI meetings is never adequately explained. Viewers are aIso subjected to an actor reading foreboding quotes from Lenin, Marx, and Stalin in a phony Russian accent. Despite the rather spurious evidence, the narrator goes on to inform us that Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson are all part of this international Communist conspiracy intent on world domination (the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was another vicious legisIative step toward tyranny, apparently.) Unfortunately for our hosts argument, he apologetically states at fiIms end that the Iimitations of time prevented hundreds of witnesses with thousands of...facts from being interviewed. Too bad. Only enjoyabIe as a slice of anti-Communist shIock, Anarchy U.S.A may be the most unintentionaIly hiIarious movie of a turbuIent era. |
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