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Darnton's essay still goes much deeper than other things I've read in English on Wajda's film, which tended to be 'it's an allegory of the Solidarity movement', and left it at that, which left me thinking - if Danton's Lech Walesa, how come he's eating stuffed fish while the people queue for bread? - and Darnton does raise that point, too. The other essays on the film online are on 'Jstor', which I can't access, damnit! It's interesting reading the viewer comments on youtube, though, where there's the clip of Robespierre's speech, and imdb, because they're very mixed - some going yay George W, smash the left (err? what?) and some Go Robespierre!, and, well, all shades of opinion about it, really - it's the sign of a interesting piece of cinema, that so many people can take so many different things from it. They should use it in politics classes, though, not history, if they are showing it in schools (though I wish we'd had Franco-Polish cinema shown in our school! We did once have Derek Jarman's version of The Tempest - the teacher switched it off quickly when a bloke emerged from the sea naked! She hadn't realised - Derek Jarman, famously gay film director...
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Date: 2008-08-23 08:44 pm (UTC)Darnton's essay still goes much deeper than other things I've read in English on Wajda's film, which tended to be 'it's an allegory of the Solidarity movement', and left it at that, which left me thinking - if Danton's Lech Walesa, how come he's eating stuffed fish while the people queue for bread? - and Darnton does raise that point, too. The other essays on the film online are on 'Jstor', which I can't access, damnit! It's interesting reading the viewer comments on youtube, though, where there's the clip of Robespierre's speech, and imdb, because they're very mixed - some going yay George W, smash the left (err? what?) and some Go Robespierre!, and, well, all shades of opinion about it, really - it's the sign of a interesting piece of cinema, that so many people can take so many different things from it. They should use it in politics classes, though, not history, if they are showing it in schools (though I wish we'd had Franco-Polish cinema shown in our school! We did once have Derek Jarman's version of The Tempest - the teacher switched it off quickly when a bloke emerged from the sea naked! She hadn't realised - Derek Jarman, famously gay film director...