...make a film like this. Hollywood teen movies almost always follow the exact same formula. Give it up to Canada for making a thought-provoking, highly imaginative teen film. Hopefully young people who see this film will be moved to crack a few history or political science books.
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Oh, no doubt. FOX News would work itself up to a fever pitch over a film like this if it were a Hollywood movie given a wide release.
Make a film glorifying a mass-murderer and treating at a comedy? Probably not.
Even the supposedly likable characters in the movie were twisted. That old former protester for instance, did you notice the North Korean flag mounted on his wall?
I sincerely hope kids don't get their history of Trotsky from this. The man alongside Lenin and Dzerzhinsky had the foremost responsibility in the Red Terror, where 200,000 political opponents were murdered by the Bolsheviks.
Oh, please. I guess you'd also take to task Mel Brooks, Charlie Chaplin, and hundreds of other comedians for making light of Adolf Hitler. I mean, you have to take this movie as it was intended. While perhaps the film was made by ardent socialists (they're Canadian, after all), it's not like it was heavy-handed Marxist propaganda meant to brainwash the masses! While we should try to be aware of and understand the darkest events of world history, we should also perhaps keep things in perspective. Having a sense of humor is often the best weapon against the absurdities of our existence.
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Your heart must pump cynicism rather than blood. Either that or "The Trotsky" is the very first movie you've ever watched.
"This is a movie that exists in its own little reality outside of the confines of rational, objective thinking."
As do almost all movies. If films were always a true reflection of reality, why would anyone want to watch them? Hell, even documentaries sometimes use cinematic techniques to tell a story.
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I must admit that in my advancing age I am flattered to be referred to as "kid". But I really must disagree. There are few films, even those in the "idealistic teen rebellion" genre that I find similar to this one. Now, you may be correct...I may not have seen enough movies to recognize the formulas you so quickly identified. But for me, this film was a welcome change of pace. Not great...nor particularly well thought out, but not stale.
Thought-provoking? If only. It certainly had the potential to be, but in my opinion it fell flat on its face. It tried way too hard to be cute and funny (failing at both in the process), and in doing so let any potential thought-provoking political message, about apathy, about socialism, about Trotsky, about anything, almost completely disappear under layers and layers of fluff.
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Well, it was, after all, a film for teens. But it certainly wasn't the typical teen movie. Despite your feelings about it, KS, this you must admit.