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Cheap Software - Weather Underground [VHS]
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Manufacturer: New Video Group
Starring: Brian Flanagan (II), Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King, James Robison, Pamela Z
Directed By: Bill Siegel, Sam Green (II)
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767064774
Format: Color
ISBN: 0767064771
Label: New Video Group
Manufacturer: New Video Group
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Video Group
Release Date: 2004-05-25
Running Time: 92
Studio: New Video Group
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Summary: Note to one reviewer: Ayers and Obama are not best friends
Comment: It's really sad that a knucklehead like "MSU Tifoso" should be allowed to review this film, but we do live in the land of the free and the home of the not-so-brave, so there you have it. That guy obviously didn't watch the documentary about the Weather Underground, he was just web-surfing to places where he could express his immature opinions about President Obama, who by the way was just a kid in the 60's and of course had no knowledge of who Bill Ayers was. And he is not today Bill Ayers "best friend", as any rational, mature adult knows. But obviously MSU Tifoso is more comfortable with the Rush Limbaugh crowd of "dittoheads" than he is in any thoughtful forum that deals in facts, and so I can only assume that he must also buy the line that Obama is a Muslim terrorist bent on destroying this country, not perfecting it as Bush/Cheney so brilliantly and intelligently did during their 8-year run to infamy.
My adivce to that clown is to watch the movie. The Weather Underground's goal to stir up revolution and its resort to sometimes violent tactics (bombs, one murder) is still rightfully controversial. But they were also acting out of frustration with the U.S. government's systematic program of annihilation of millions of innocent people in Southeast Asia, as well as ongoing, institutionalized racism at home. It can be plausibly claimed that the government's ongoing use of violence against non-white peoples -- overseas and domestically -- produced a similar response by outraged, idealistic young Americans who, feeling betrayed by a government that was acting more like Ginsberg's Moloch than the leader of the free world, decided, rightly or wrongly, that the only recourse they had was to literally fight fire with fire. We still have a lot to answer for concerning the Vietnam War, as well as allowing Bush/Cheney to brainwash/scare a large segment of the population into meekly accepting our destruction of Iraq, while hemmorraghing money out of the U.S. Treasury to fatten the already bulging wallets of their corporate clients (Halliburton, Blackwater, et al) and all the other profiteers of the military-industrial complex. There's a lot of blood on our hands, and while we can disagree with the Weather Underground's approach on some levels, they were not wrong when they morally, and in some instances physically, opposed American aggression, militarism, and imperialism. Ironically, THEY were the ones calling for a true American exceptionalism, not the blowhards who defended the flag without thinking, tacitly supported racial inequality, blindly supported the war, and voted for the monstrous Nixon without blushing.
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Summary: A kind of violence
Comment: A fine documentary about an extraordinary group of people.
The Weather Underground grew out of SDS, and in its early days reflected the inchoate yearning for authenticity, combined with sex and drugs, characteristic of its generation.
Then the group became more radical. BRING THE WAR HOME was their slogan. They planned to blow up a military dress ball, killing as many people as possible.
But when three of their members were killed in an accidental detonation in New York, they called a time out and reviewed their whole philosophy. They decided that they would never hurt anyone in any of their bombings. And in this they were successful.
They bombed public buildings, corporate headquarters, even the Capitol Building in Washington, without hurting anyone. They protested our coup in Chile, the Vietnam War, the murder of George Jackson -- things that were more than deserving of protest.
In middle age they express regret over their conviction that they had "the moral high ground," they compare themselves to fanatics like Hitler, Stalin, Mao. But this regret should concern only their youthful impulse, not their acts. They hurt no one, and they destroyed property in a good cause, the cause of justice. We certainly could have used them during George Bush's presidency, when the only sign that Americans saw anything at all wrong with the war in Iraq was Bush's lowered approval rating. One of the members says correctly, "If your government is murdering people and you stay at home and do nothing about it, your very inaction is a kind of violence."
That kind of insight is rare and valuable.
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Summary: Great documentary
Comment: This is a great documentary that starts with the SDS and how some of there members formed the weather underground movement. It is not a one sided story glorifying the movement which you can get with many films that deal with subjects like this. It actually made me sad because a lot of these people had good intentions but just did not get it together. This definitely broadened my understanding of the weathermen
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Summary: A fine documentary
Comment: Perhaps the best documentary I have ever seen. I was reminded of the words of Jack Palance as Jesus Raza in the wonderful film, 'The Professionals [Blu-ray]', as he mused on the revolution:
"La Revolucion is like a great love affair. In the beginning, she is a goddess. A holy cause. But... every love affair has a terrible enemy: time. We see her as she is. La Revolucion is not a goddess but a whore. She was never pure, never saintly, never perfect. And we run away, find another lover, another cause. Quick, sordid affairs. Lust, but no love. Passion, but no compassion. Without love, without a cause, we are... nothing! We stay because we believe. We leave because we are disillusioned. We come back because we are lost. We die because we are committed."
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Summary: The Weather Underground
Comment: I was in law enforcement during this period of time. This documentary seems to be very well done, factual and accurate in all matters.
I am very excited to witness how our nation will change (my hope is for the better) during the next four years under the leadership of Barack Obama.
However, it is my hope that our "President-Elect", Barack Obama will distance himself from all former Weathermen members, especially William (Bill) Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn.
Respectfully,
R. Greenleaf - Utah
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The key players in the radical movement known as the Weather Underground are skillfully brought to life in this Oscar-nominated documentary. The Weathermen were born of sixties protest, but took their scheme to overthrow the U.S. government to especially violent extremes. Never a well-populated movement, the Underground petered out as its leaders aged during the seventies; by decade's end, weary of hiding, most of them had turned themselves over to the authorities. That journey, by which a fire-breathing revolutionary such as Bernadine Dohrn became a (still fiery) gray-haired wife and mother, is an intriguing one. This film, rich in period footage (and some unnecessary sensationalism) captures the era somewhat broadly. But the present-day interviews with the participants, contrasted with their radical selves, provides an exceptionally detailed look inside the organization itself. It's not a nostalgic look back, and the overall mood is sobering rather than celebratory. Lili Taylor provides the narration. --Robert Horton
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