The hunt for red October.
Sneakers.
Not saying ever etc… Just my favorites of the top of my head
What is the best political movie? And what is the best apolitical movie?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by thewanderingbackpack@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I feel like Sneakers was incredibly prescient and incredibly political due to that. The drive to control the flow of information is deeply political at this point.
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Absolutely agree, but also points a sharp point at the general evils lurking behind most politics, essentially nailing an anarchic view of “doing what’s right” as opposed to “doing what’s legal”.
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
callouscomic@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Dredd is incredible. Super underrated.
ScotinDub@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Political: I, Daniel Blake Apolitical: Spirited away
zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
All art is political.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The only apolitical movie I can think of is plan 9 and that is pushing it
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Best political, probably Kolkata 71. Parasite is also very good. Best apolitical, I have to go with Panther Panchali. It’s so hard to just choose one movie, my answer will probably change if you ask me again in a few days. A list of 20 might do it a bit more justice lol.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
3 Days of The Condor is the best political movie, IMHO.
Best Apolitical? Picking one of my favorites, Where Eagles Dare.
Both are watchable for free on Archive.org :D
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where Eagles Dare is a great one.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So, you’re into bird movies?
Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
This is kind of cheating, but here’s a movie-length edit of Patrick “Picard” Stewart as Lenin from the miniseries “Fall of Eagles”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsiU0P-swYE
cyberslask@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wag the Dog is my personal political favourite – still holds up well after all these years. It came out in 1997, just at the same time the Clinton/Lewinski scandal surfaced.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Dave and The Princess Bride
Dubois_arache@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
War is continuation of war, so we can say Come and see by Elem Klimov (hard to see). There are few apolitical things, and a movie is not one of those.
vvilld@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All the President’s Men is my favorite political movie.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
V for vendetta is my go to for a political movie.
Some thought that cartoonish villains taking over western countries while the rest of the world went to shit was far fetched but here we are.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s the thing you don’t know if the rest of the world did go to shit. That’s the point of fascist take over and propaganda they put out. “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”