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>The Italians allowed a film version of Ayn Rand's "We the Living" to be produced because they believed it was a biting criticism of Soviet Russia, before someo
by pretoriusB 14y ago
>The Italians allowed a film version of Ayn Rand's "We the Living" to be produced because they believed it was a biting criticism of Soviet Russia, before someone realized its philosophic disposition was anti-totalitarianism. Could be sort of the same thing...
And why would "the Italians" have a problem with either praise of Soviet Russia or anti-totalitarianism? They are a democracy, you know, and they have both millions of people pro and against Soviet Russia (the communist party was huge in Italy), and pro and against totalitarianism.
That said, knowing Ayn Rand, the film would be mostly pro-neoliberal totalitarianism of "special" individuals...
- potatolicious 14y ago> "And why would "the Italians" have a problem with either praise of Soviet Russia or anti-totalitarianism?" The movie in question was made in 1942, during the reign of Mussolini and his facists.
- sageikosa 14y agoYes, I omitted that detail, it was foremost in my mind though.
- pretoriusB 14y agoIsn't it obvious how omitting this detail --that he talks of a 70 year old movie-- changes the whole, err, picture?
- scott_s 14y agoProbably because he's referring to the 1942 version (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035130/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035130/), during which time Italy was not a democracy.
- moconnor 14y agoBecause when Ayn Rand was produced, Italy was not a democracy - it was under the fascist dictatorship of Mussolini.