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The film, it's incredibly effective, especially in this moment with Joe Biden's inauguration and with like this, you know, the left in the United States being both more active than it's been in decades, and also being completely crushed out of any, you know, real authority within kind of

of the structures of power for the foreseeable future.

And it's like, well, you can work outside of the system, in which case you will get nowhere and be crushed immediately,

or you can work within the system, in which case you may get some marginal response, but overall you are just going to be crushed completely.

And there is no larger answer to any of this, you know.

And yeah, that's kind of, I mean, it's just, I don't know, like watching it in this moment was a,

I mean, it's a real downer.

And, you know, I say this is someone who

consumes a lot of material that a lot of people think

is a real downer, but like, you know,

with this film as energizing as it is in terms of its quality.

It really does not, it's really hard to recommend it to somebody kind of looking for

like here's something that's going to give you some kind of

solution it does it does I mean the film is almost saying there is no

solution to that you know like you're just going to get crushed that's what the

that's that's what the film is ultimately saying. Yeah and I think I think you have to look at the moment of its creation. I mean, right. It's from 1971. It's not from 1967 or 1968 you know

1968 is the is the peak of the post war moment of struggle and

the revolutionary moment and it starts to moment of There's the moment when the wave crashes and then it starts to recede, you know, the tide starts to roll back.

And I think already by this point, that revolutionary moment is in recess.

It is entering a process of long slow defeat.

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