Why this film only has 45 or so votes on here is beyond me. Sure, it's not like I've heard very much about it through my life either, but honestly, this was some excellent cinema.
Here's hoping it'll get rediscovered or something and be shown around the world. Never mind the World Trade Center's important presence in it.
--PolarisDiB
It seems like it can't decide if it wants to be a documentary, drama or propaganda film.
Now that time has passed, some things haven't aged well.
The image at the end of the bomb at the top of the World Trade Center was kind of jarring.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
I saw this 20 years ago.
It was a crazy film,it assumes that America has a socialist government,but this is not radical enough for the people in the film.
Not exactly realistic then.
I would like to see it again but expect this is unlikely.
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Hasn't aged well? This is basically the mainstream Democratic vision. Who else is fighting the "War on Women" if not the "Women's Army"? After watching this I almost believe the 9/11 conspiracy theorists, though maybe Al-Qaeda is actually a feminist cell
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This film is hardly what you would call mainstream (it was an indie film that took at least 5 years for he director to make.) I do recall it playing during the 2010 Social Forum in Detroit, and was glad to hear of it being rediscvoered/shown to an audience, because it's so obscure--got it on VHS. It could have done a lot better with a stronger narrative focus, but it's still an interesting document of the times it was made in, and manages to pack in a lot of ideas despite its obviously low budget. Worth seeng if you like early '80's underground indie flicks.
I just saw the movie. It is om Amazon Prime streaming. Very good. I wonder what happened to all of the people in the movie with the exception of Kathryn Bigelow.
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It has some currency here in 2011 during the Occupy craze. I'm calling it a craze now rather than a movement. Whether it is anything legitimate awaits to be seen.
I didn't know Born In Flames before this year but it has a few referents in other films which escape me. Radio is a primary image in BiF.
Intersting that Kathryn Bigelow did Hurt Locker and the new Dark Zero Thirty movie and that this was her first movie(actress) and at the end the World Trade Centers are destroyed...and now her two biggest movies are a result of that occurance.
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