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Anarchist Cookbook, the movie

by tkat
Maybe as you are getting reading for the Spring "d"rainbow gathering, you are thinking about renting a movie about anarchists, well don't do it. Here is the movie review that tells why not...
This movie totally sucks. But it does have some great lessons in it and is extra insulting to anarchists.
I was so insulted that I walked out of it, in my own house. It is so bad, not so bad that it is good like Showgirls, more like so bad as the actual Anarchist Cookbook the book.

The Anarchist Cookbook, written by the son of a high level Washington bureaucrat, is somehow in print still to this day.
The Library Journal March 71 said this about the book, "Much of it is so sketchy as to be harmless, but there are a number of booby traps still for the nitwit who wishes to try them. There are drug making recipes...that will make one very ill...There are also a number of stunts which could backfire on any idiot that tries them." This book like the movie seems to be an attempt to both make money by exploiting the mainstream visibility of Anarchists and also associating anarchism with drugs and violence.

The movie was researched a little, and there are a few moments of deja vu. Did they actually visit an anarchist bookshop or how did they learn about creating community conflict, did they look at anarchist websites? Um maybe, but in terms of actually representing anything close to the perceptions of anarchism that meet reality, they failed. But maybe they actually based it on Class War England and that trend of upper class male dominating structure, woops that is way more analysis than went into making this movie. In the end of the movie the radicals make an alliance with the Nazis so it is really clear that this is not about anarchism. "How far are you willing to go?' The statement in the movie that keeps coming up. To be honest I was willing to go down the hall and into the kitchen and wash dishes to avoid watching this movie. Maybe one of the other people that watched it all the way through can fill in the rest of the important parts. I strongly urge people to go the distance, and not watch this movie. I am willing to go even further than that, I am almost willing to say that going to a Rainbow gathering and getting dysentery would be more pleasurable than watching this
movie. Hear me now!

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