16 November 2008
objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again
So we go and see the Baader-Meinhof film. It's very well done in parts, but lacks much historic reference and depth (i.e. their whole anti-Nazi thing, why they chose Schleyer in particular, the internationalism of the movement). Still, good haircuts, which I suppose is what the spectacle wants. Very bad choice of Dylan's 'Blowin' in the Wind' in the credits, though, which apart from being hokey doggerel, sorta undermines the whole it's the women what run the show thing (and has any other recent film so overwhelmingly passed the Bechdel test?! Rather strategy and bombs than manipulation and handbags). It's a rather sexy film, it must be said, with the RAF's fidelity to shared living quarters in captivity and without, the liberation nudity and, of course, girls in miniskirts firing AK-47s.
Owen pointed out that Meinhof's transition from journalist to founder of the RAF would be the equivalent of Naomi Klein going rogue today. I somehow rather hope that happens.
