[kj] OT - The Exorcist

[Jim Harper]

I'm not sure I would read it quite so seriously. Carpenter said it was his indignant protest against late 80s Repbulicanism, coupled with a degree of humour- I was several years before I realized that the alien on TV taking about 'a new optimism' was meant to be Ronnie Reagan...
 
Jim.

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--- On Tue, 9/9/08, GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com> wrote:

From: GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com>
Subject: Re: [kj] OT - The Exorcist
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
Date: Tuesday, 9 September, 2008, 1:25 PM




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"They Live" is one of the best MARXIST POLITICAL movies of all time--it is basically a symbolic (and tounge-in-cheek) look at how a revolutionary communist party would start to organize against capitalism (where the glasses represent the exposure of the crimes of capital (e.g., communist lit), and the glassy-eyed lady was a symbol for black (or other minority group) capitalists--a group that is exploited as a whole (humans by the aliens) where a few are allowed to rise up if they join in the exploitation (e.g., black administrators, police chiefs, CEOs, etc.). It's also funny, exciting, and suspensful!


> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:41:26 +1200

> From: humanhybrid666 at gmail.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT - The Exorcist

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> l\fluke - i think yr meaning 'jeepers creepers' ? i quite liked that one...

> what about 'the thing'.... bit dated now but kinda good in its time...

> also one that stuck in memory was the one with those sunglasses that

> enable you to see the aliens amongst us... 'they live' not scary as

> such, but a lil bit when yr young!

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